Thursday 03 July 2008 5:29 pm
Commenting on figures that show feasibility studies into aborted plans to buy two private jets to carry Gordon Brown and the Royal Family cost £1.25m, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Norman Baker said:
"This is unbelievable and outrageous. Gordon Brown is burning money like a jet plane burns fuel.

"How on earth can it cost over £1 million just to decide whether or not to buy a plane£ I could have told them the answer for nothing - don't."

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