Tory scandalous spending hits £130 billion – with £6 billion blown in two months

The Tories blew £130 billion on wasteful projects, duff deals and crony contracts on Rishi Sunak ’s watch, it can be revealed.

An average of £26billion of taxpayers cash went down the drain since the 2019 election – almost all when he was Chancellor or Prime Minister, claim campaigners.

In what could be the final update of Best for Britain’s round-up, the campaign group found £6 billion of ‘scandalous spending’ in the last two months alone.

Naomi Smith, Chief Executive of Best for Britain and founder of GetVoting.org said: “Rishi Sunak has presided over years of delinquent Government spending and while his reign of egregious waste may soon be over, we cannot risk the Tories getting their hands back in the public piggy bank in five years time.

“That’s why we’re asking people to vote tactically at the next election and get it right with GetVoting.org.”

The eye-watering figure includes a £32,000 libel bill after Science Minister Michelle Donelan falsely accused two academics of having “extremist views”.

It counts the £33 million this newspaper revealed Mr Sunak had wasted by holding the election in July, rather than alongside local elections in May.

And the biggest new entry on the list was for the £4.7 billion cost of new Brexit border checks, introduced at the end of April.

The mammoth amount of wasted cash is enough to fund Keir Starmer ’s six key pledges more than five times over.

And just a month’s worth of the average squander is enough to fund Lib Dem proposals to boost GP appointments 30 times over.

Already accounted for in previous updates to the list were the £1.7m spent painting the Prime Minister’s private planes, £3billion on hiring temps to do civil service jobs and almost half a billion blown on post-Brexit customs inspection sites that were never used.

And more than £2bn was frittered away on parts of the HS2 rail scheme that were scrapped by Mr Sunak last year.