英国首相办公室为派遣政府专机飞往曼彻斯特接载安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）进行了辩护，而不是让首相提前前往伦敦登机。
Street has defended sending the official UK government plane to Manchester to pick up Andy Burnham, rather than the prime minister travelling to London in advance of the flight.
这架空客A321neo客机于周一约06:00从伦敦斯坦斯特德机场起飞，目的地为安提瓜和巴布达首都圣约翰，机上并未搭载首相。
The Airbus A321neo departed London Stansted Airport for Saint John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, at about 06:00 on Monday without the prime minister on board.
半小时后，专机降落曼彻斯特接载伯纳姆，随后再次起飞跨越大西洋，前往参加英联邦政府首脑会议（Chogm）。
Half an hour later it landed in Manchester to collect Burnham, before taking off again to cross the Atlantic for the Commonwealth heads of government summit (Chogm).
此行在社交媒体上引发反弹，部分人质疑其性价比，但首相府（Number 10）表示，安保、成本及“作业需求”均已纳入考量。
The trip sparked a backlash on social media with some questioning the value for money, but Number 10 said security, cost and "operational requirements" were all factored in.
这架注册号为G-GBNI的英国政府专机，常被英国首相及王室成员用于海外访问。
The official UK government plane, carrying the registration G-GBNI, is often used by British prime ministers and royals for overseas trips.
航班追踪数据显示，该客机周一上午飞往曼彻斯特耗时35分钟，在停机坪停留了一个半小时，于08:00起飞前往圣约翰。
Flight tracking data shows the jet made a 35 minute flight on Monday morning to Manchester, where it spent an hour and a half on the tarmac, before taking off at 08:00 to head to St John's.
对此，保守党议员兼影子内阁部长尼尔·奥布赖恩（Neil O'Brien）指责工党“设法浪费纳税人的钱和航空燃油，只为摆姿态”。
In response, Tory MP and shadow cabinet minister Neil O'Brien accused Labour of managing to "waste taxpayers' money and jet fuel so they can posture".
他补充道：“你们为追求‘净零’执念，让民众为能源和燃油支付高昂代价……但轮到他们自己时，规则就变了。”
"You have to pay through the nose for energy and fuel to pursue their Net Zero obsession... But when it's them, the rules are different," he added.
当被问及为何伯纳姆不前往伦敦登机时，其官方发言人对记者表示：“首相的出行安排反映了他在上周末从事官方公务的地点。
Asked why Burnham had not travelled to London instead, his official spokesperson told reporters: "The prime minister's travel arrangements reflect where he was carrying out official government business at the end of last week.
“众所周知，他周五在苏格兰度过一天；周五晚间返回曼彻斯特，在‘北部唐宁街10号’办公。”伯纳姆将于周二会见英联邦领导人，此行正值国王加勒比海访问行程尾声，首相表示他“对英国正式为其在奴隶制中扮演的角色道歉持开放态度”。
"As you know, he spent the day in Scotland on Friday; returned to Manchester to work from Number 10 North on Friday evening." Burnham will meet Commonwealth leaders on Tuesday, coming at the end of the King's Caribbean tour, with the prime minister saying he is "open" to the possibility of the UK formally apologising for its role in slavery.
目前尚不清楚伦敦至曼彻斯特之行的具体费用，也不确定是否有先例，因为内阁办公室的透明度数据仅列出了该专机的海外行程。由于数据按季度发布，伯纳姆的行程尚未列入其中。
It is unclear how much the London to Manchester trip cost, or whether there is a precedent for it, as the Cabinet Office's transparency data for the plane only lists overseas trips. None of Burnham's trips are listed yet, as the data is published quarterly.
最新的2026年4月至6月数据显示，时任首相斯塔默爵士曾乘坐该专机执行四次往返行程，其中包括一次耗资12.1万英镑、携21名官员前往亚美尼亚出席欧洲政治共同体峰会的行程。同年4月，一次从英国前往巴黎的行程耗资3.9万英镑。
The latest data for April to June 2026 shows then-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer made four round trips on the jet, including a £121,000 trip to Armenia with 21 officials for the European Political Community Summit. A trip from the UK to Paris in April cost £39,000.
每趟航班的具体费用取决于随行官员人数、燃油成本以及着陆费等其他因素。
The precise cost of each flight can depend on how many officials were with the prime minister, fuel costs and other factors such as landing fees.
目前也不清楚，若改由火车或陆路交通工具将首相、其安保团队及官员从曼彻斯特送往斯坦斯特德机场，是否会便宜得多。
It is also unclear whether transporting the prime minister, his security detail and officials by train or road transport from Manchester to Stansted would have been much cheaper.
英国政府前一架专机——皇家空军“旅行者”型加油机——曾于2020年进行耗资90万英镑的重新喷漆，随后被另一架飞机取代。
A previous version of the UK government official plane, an RAF Voyager, was given a £900,000 repaint job in 2020 before being replaced with a different plane.
