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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke & Ashley Cowburn

Rishi Sunak takes helicopter for 74 mile journey to Kent - that would be an hour on train

Helicopter enthusiast Rishi Sunak was flown from London to Kent for a briefing today - despite it being just over an hour away by train.

The PM, who has been criticised over his repeated use of choppers, flew from the capital to Dover, where he will desperately try and convince critics his small boats strategy is working.

An RAF Agusta Westland A109 - believed to have been transporting Mr Sunak took off from Battersea Helicopter just after 8am.

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