ANDREW PIERCE: ‘Boris Force One’ used once after £900k paint job 

When Boris Johnson ordered a £900,000 red, white and blue makeover of the RAF-issue prime ministerial plane last year, some critics questioned why the taxpayer needed to cough up nearly £1 million just so the PM could look like ‘Austin Powers on tour’. The previously sombre grey military Voyager A330 aircraft had already been refitted … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: ‘Boris Force One’ used once after £900k paint job 

When Boris Johnson ordered a £900,000 red, white and blue makeover of the RAF-issue prime ministerial plane last year, some critics questioned why the taxpayer needed to cough up nearly £1 million just so the PM could look like ‘Austin Powers on tour’. The previously sombre grey military Voyager A330 aircraft had already been refitted … Read more

Boris Johnson’s RAF plane to get £900k ‘Austin Powers makeover’

The red, white and blue makeover for Boris Johnson’s RAF plane will cost the taxpayer close to a million pounds, it was revealed today. The Voyager aircraft used by the PM on foreign trips is to get ‘national branding’, rather than the standard grey that makes it less visible in the sky. The idea has … Read more