The first two months of 2024 have seen a significant amount of foreign travel banked by MPs, many of whom have managed to escape the grim British weather for warmer climes – all in the name of diplomacy, of course.
Of particular interest to openDemocracy readers might be the trip taken by shadow secretary of state for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle last month. Kyle travelled to the USA to meet “political counterparts” and tech firms, including Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google and Apple. (Reminder: the party was criticised last year after it dropped a previously stated pledge to introduce a digital services tax on tech giants a fortnight after visiting Google’s UK HQ for talks.)
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