Kemi Badenoch asked to use taxpayers’ money to pay for holiday flight, sources claim

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Kemi Badenoch asked officials to pay for a holiday flight with taxpayers' money to the US while in government but was rebuffed by her former department's top civil servant, the Guardian understands.

Officials at the department for business and trade (DBT) ended up booking her travel to Texas for a family holiday in February last year, sources claimed, although the former cabinet minister covered the cost herself.