The PM gave a desperate ‘levelling-up’ speech in the seaside town, promising a raft of policies to bring his wavering backbenchers back on side.
He spoke of tackling “increases in the cost of food, the spooling digits on the petrol pumps, energy bills growing seemingly ever larger.”
He promised to “get on with the mission on which this Government was elected and unite and level up across the country.”
And he outlined plans to shutter ticket offices in railway stations across the country.
But he dodged the three-hour train journey to the holiday hotspot - complete with an hour long leg from Preston to Blackpool on a local stopping service - in favour of his luxury government plane.
Aviation records show the PM’s Airbus A321 from London’s Stanstead Airport to Warton Aerodrome in Lancashire on Thursday morning - and back again in the afternoon.
A flight may be justifiable to save the PM’s time but his was in no private executive-style jet but in the government’s own medium-range jet airliner, an Airbus A321:
The A321neo carries up to 244 passengers, with a maximum range of 4,000 nmi (7,400 km).
Did BJ really need to use a jet airliner which can travel from London to New York (3,500 miles) to get to Blackpool from London (250 miles) … 
Suspiciously:
Boris Johnson’s £75m ‘Brexit jet’ provided by the same company running red list quarantine hotels
A second official VIP “Brexit jet” painted in Union flag livery will cost taxpayers up to £75m over the next five years after it was sourced via the same company in charge of Britain’s Covid hotel quarantine system.
The jet, which would have cost just £79m over its lifetime if bought outright from Airbus, was acquired via a contract awarded to a subsidiary of Corporate Travel Management Ltd (CTM), the Australian-based company which is also in charge of overseeing the controversial Covid hotel quarantine system which charges £1,750 per adult to house arrivals in Britain from red list countries.
The quarantine contract is the second Covid-related emergency project awarded to the company. It was previously selected to co-ordinate nearly 200 repatriation flights for 38,000 UK citizens stranded abroad in the early stages of the pandemic.
CTM’s founder, Jamie Pherous, said last year that the company was appointed to manage the repatriation flights after a person “close to” Mr Johnson called him, saying: “We’ve got this problem, can you solve it for us?”
It is understood that the Airbus contract was awarded under a separate “procurement framework” contract for Government travel established prior to the pandemic.
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner last night called on the Cabinet Office to publish all correspondence relating to the award of the contract.
The A321 is the second so-called “Brexit jet” to be acquired by the Government alongside a RAF Voyager Vespina aircraft which was given a £900,000 paint job to ensure it carries the red, white and blue “Global Britain” livery designed to help promote the UK on post-Brexit tours and trade missions abroad. The A321 has been given the same paint job at an undisclosed cost.
When the existence of the Airbus was revealed earlier this year, it prompted furious questions from environmentalists and opposition parties about why Britain needs two large official aircraft for the use of dignitaries in the same year that it is hosting the COP26 conference to tackle the climate crisis.
Downing Street initially declined to reveal the price for leasing the A321 but it has now been forced to acknowledge the cost after details of the contract were quietly made public in recent weeks.