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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

James Cleverly’s use of £10,000 an hour Succession-style jet ‘ludicrous’

A private Embraer Lineage 1000E plane pictured at San Diego airport, in the US
The Embraer Lineage 1000E has been lauded as ‘the crème de la crème of private business jets’. Photograph: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy

In the cut-throat world of hit TV show Succession, it is the go-to private jet for the Roy dynasty, providing a backdrop to the programme’s high-level plotting amid luxury leather upholstery.

Now it has emerged that an Embraer Lineage 1000E – lauded as “the crème de la crème of private business jets” – has also been the choice of aircraft for the British foreign secretary, James Cleverly, on his eight-day tour of the Caribbean and Latin America.

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