1. Now, at last, a party leader has had the guts to call for a halt to the junketing.

2. Previous global summits on poverty and the environment have been derailed by tales of junketing and hypocritical use of resources, and Downing Street is determined not to get caught out in the same way.

3. The greedy, junketing Tony Blair with his eye on the main financial chance one can just about handle, though it is a particularly unpalatable pill to swallow when British soldiers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

4. This has nothing to do with the corruption or lethargy of ‘ungovernable Africa‘. It is economic warfare by the G8 against the poor ... If Tony Blair is serious about ‘tackling world poverty‘, he should devote his present junketing to ... a crash programme of preferential, bilateral trade deals with poor countries." Richard Stott Sunday Mirror, June 5 "If effing and blinding could solve Africa‘s problems Bob Geldof would have made poverty history years ago.

5. Unless we have clear details of how there will be changes to what is taught inside these madrassas, we‘re in danger of throwing good money after bad.‘ Fellow Tory David Davies, MP for Monmouth, said: ‘Blair and Brown appear to be flying around the world junketing at taxpayers expense competing with each other for headlines. ‘We need to be absolutely certain this money doesn‘t find its way into the hands of people who will continue to indoctrinate young boys to go off and attack British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.‘ David Heathcoat–Amory, who sits on the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said: ‘We‘ve now got two prime ministers and they are both spending large amounts of taxpayers‘ money abroad, paying for their foreign policy failures.‘ He described the shift of emphasis from military to aid as ‘a clear change of policy‘ and demanded a debate in the Commons.