Home Office staff blew £10k on dinner at swanky London restaurant

HOME Office staff blew £10,000 of taxpayer cash on a dinner at a skyscraper restaurant.

Civil servants racked up the bill in London’s swanky Searcys at The Gherkin.

They had “exceptional permission” to pay via Government Procurement Card for the event thrown for their Italian counterparts.

Campaigners said such “outrageous extravagance” on the nation could never be justified — as the Government insists money is tight.