Carol Vorderman slams Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for using helicopter for Coventry visit

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The Prime Minister was in Coventry on March 18 for a visit to the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Ansty Park



Carol Vorderman has slammed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for using a helicopter to travel to Coventry. He visited the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Ansty Park on the outskirts of the city yesterday (March 18).

He used a RAF helicopter to make the 145 mile trip from his home in Yorkshire to Coventry. This enraged the former Countdown star, who hit out on X, formerly known as Twitter.

She fumed: "So Rishi Sunak used an RAF helicopter to fly him from his Yorkshire house to Coventry yesterday to make a speech. That's party business, not state business... We shouldn't be paying for the extortionate travel preferences of this completely detached-from-normality bloke."

CoventryLive contacted Number Ten Downing Street and a government spokesperson said: "The Prime Minister regularly uses all forms of travel. His travel plans will vary and are always decided with consideration to the most efficient and best use of his time, and the interests of the taxpayer."

Her comments came after Labour MP Emily Thornberry raised the matter on X, formerly Twitter. The Islington South and Finsbury MP said: "Rishi Sunak ordered the RAF to send a helicopter 210 miles from Northolt to his home in Yorkshire yesterday, so he could fly 145 miles to Coventry this morning, just to make a seven-minute speech. This is why he's in a spiral; it's the constant refusal to listen, learn or change."

One commenter, Candice Holmes, responded to Vorderman's tweet by saying: "Using an RAF chopper like his personal taxi?! While families struggle to pay bills, this multi-millionaire PM can't even take a normal car like the rest of us. Completely out of touch!"

[rebbonk]

The lady is quite correct