FURY AT £15K BILL FOR MINISTER'S WALLPAPER
The Sunday Mirror|March 03, 2024
Defence Secretary's office gets £27k spruce-up while troops live in squalor
SEAN RAYMENT
FURY AT £15K BILL FOR MINISTER'S WALLPAPER

MORE than £27,000 has been spent revamping the Defence Secretary's private office while thousands of troops and their families are stuck in homes unfit to live in.

The Ministry of Defence has admitted splurging on new wallpaper and carpets when Ben Wallace held the post in 2022, before being replaced by Grant Shapps.

And it comes as one military family feared their daughter was about to die after falling ill in their mouldy home.

A former Army colonel has blasted the Whitehall spruce-up as "disgusting".

And one decorator branded the cost of the work "excessive", adding: "I can only assume that the actual wallpaper must have cost a fortune.

この記事は The Sunday Mirror の March 03, 2024 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

この記事は The Sunday Mirror の March 03, 2024 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。