The controversial Labour peer in charge of the EU’s new diplomatic service was facing fresh charges of waste last night after figures revealed that she employs nearly 500 chauffeurs – including one paid £62,000 a year.
Baroness Ashton, who has faced repeated charges of profligacy since being plucked from obscurity to be the EU’s first ‘foreign minister’, paid one chauffeur a basic salary of almost £5,200 a month – equal to an annual salary of more than £62,000 a year.
The EU’s diplomatic service now employs almost 500 drivers to ferry officials between meetings, with many of them on lavish salaries, figures released to the European Parliament show.
The most expensive vehicle bought for the diplomatic service cost £182,695.
The figures also show that chauffeurs clocked up 30,000 miles last year with no-one in the back of the car.
Baroness Ashton, who is paid a salary of more than £250,000 as well as lavish expenses, is the highest paid female politician in the world. Her income is similar to that of US President Barack Obama.
She also enjoys the use of a bulletproof car with two chauffeurs, and a lavish grace-and-favour home in Brussels. Full story...
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Baroness Ashton, who has faced repeated charges of profligacy since being plucked from obscurity to be the EU’s first ‘foreign minister’, paid one chauffeur a basic salary of almost £5,200 a month – equal to an annual salary of more than £62,000 a year.
The EU’s diplomatic service now employs almost 500 drivers to ferry officials between meetings, with many of them on lavish salaries, figures released to the European Parliament show.
The most expensive vehicle bought for the diplomatic service cost £182,695.
The figures also show that chauffeurs clocked up 30,000 miles last year with no-one in the back of the car.
Baroness Ashton, who is paid a salary of more than £250,000 as well as lavish expenses, is the highest paid female politician in the world. Her income is similar to that of US President Barack Obama.
She also enjoys the use of a bulletproof car with two chauffeurs, and a lavish grace-and-favour home in Brussels. Full story...
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