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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jon Stone

Keir Starmer put £2000-a-week chauffeur driven car on expenses while head of CPS

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Keir Starmer billed taxpayers for nearly a quarter of a million pounds in travel costs while he was director of public prosecutions, it has been revealed.

The future Labour leader put nearly three times as much on expenses as his CPS successor Alison Saunders, including first class flights abroad and a chauffeur driven car.

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