A Minister to Gladden the Heart of the Taxpayers’ Alliance
I bumped into a Minister on the tube yesterday, which is always interesting (well, for me anyway). I asked him where his chauffeur was, and he revealed he had refused to have one. He’s not one of these unpaid jobby’s either, but a proper Minister of State. He had a battle to turn down the use of car, but he won. The first day without a car he got stuck on the tube for 25 minutes and missed a meeting, but since then it has been plain sailing. He now saves the taxpayer £50,000 a year, he uses an Oyster card and has a taxi account. He leaves the red box in the Minstry, as he says it is anti social to take work home.
May be the Tories should pledge now that, when we win the election, there will be a presumption that no Minister outside the Cabinet will be automatically entitled to a car, and that they should justify the need for one before they get one.
canvas said on March 29th, 2008 at 11:32 am:
That sounds spot on. However, security should come first. In theory, it’s a brilliant idea.
gervaise said on April 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm:
go on, ed, name a name