James Cleverly’s use of private jet described as ‘ludicrous extravagance’

Exclusive: UK foreign secretary has been using jet that costs more than 10,000 an hour to hire for Caribbean and Latin America tour

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 creme de la creme 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.