Jetsetting Tories: "Oops I Did It Again"

Whilst Davy's a little bit coy as to what sort of flight was provided, Basher Davis goes for total disclosure:

20 October 2007,I attended the final of the Rugby World Cup in Paris as a guest of Lord Ashcroft, who also provided transport from Paris to Stansted in a private plane. (Registered 25 October 2007)

Oooh, a private plane? Seems so, according to Patrick McLoughlin's entry:

20 October 2007, I attended the final of the Rugby World Cup in Paris as a guest of Lord Ashcroft, who also provided transport from Paris to Stansted in a private plane. (Registered 29 October 2007)

Andrew Mitchell:

20 October 2007, I attended the final of the Rugby World Cup in Paris as a guest of Lord Ashcroft, who also provided transport from Stansted to Paris and return in a private plane. I was accompanied by my wife. (Registered 25 October 2007)

Andrew Mitchell has previously accepted a number of flights off a company formerly owned by Lord Ashcroft called Flying Lion - remember them? As has David Cameron, come to that.

But in today's Guardian, it appears that the Dark Lord is unwilling to clarify issues relating to his domicility (via Tom Watson) so ... is it within DA ROOLS for a hypothetical non-dom to provide gifts to politicians and what was the commercial cost of tickets to a rugby world cup final and a return journey in a private jet?

The consensus here at Westmonster is "f*cking loads." Anyone up for calculating the carbon footprint?

(Many thanks to Chris Paul for the image)