Liz Truss took private jet to Australia at cost of £500,000 to taxpayers

The flight produced in ‘just a few hours as much carbon as 105 UK households generate in a year’, Greenpeace told Metro.co.uk (Picture: Reuters/Getty)Liz Truss took a private jet to Australia at a ‘grotesque’ cost of £500,000 to the taxpayer, reports say.The Foreign Secretary’s journey was branded a ‘ridiculous waste’ of public money and blasted on environmental grounds.The Independent reported that she chose not to take one of the daily business c