Rachel Kyte reports directly to Ed Miliband. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The government’s climate envoy has totted up more than 150,000 airmiles since she was appointed by Labour, in trips to conferences such as COP 30. That’s more than six times the circumference of the earth.

Rachel Kyte reports directly to energy secretary Ed Miliband and foreign secretary Yvette Cooper. The role of climate envoy had been previously axed by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

According to an LBC News report , UK taxpayers have footed a £104,804.65 bill for flights, with 80 per cent of this figure spent on flights.

The former World Bank vice president and special envoy for climate change raised eyebrows at the 2018 COP 24 conference in Poland, after wearing an Extinction Rebel

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