It echoes moves made in 2018, when he flew to Afghanistan to avoid a vote on a third runway at Heathrow as foreign secretary.
The SNP leader said - again and again - that Johnson had "wilfully misled Parliament", before being tossed out by the Speaker.
"We have a government plane to conduct government business in the way that all major nations do and I think that’s right and appropriate," top Treasury official Simon Clarke has said in defence of Truss.
The former prime minister launched a must-watch attack on her successor after the publication of Sue Gray's report.
Andrew Mitchell publicly called on Johnson to resign in the Commons.
The Labour leader delivered a withering takedown of Johnson in the House of Commons.
Sue Gray's report hit out at a string of "failures of leadership and judgment" in Downing Street.
The senior civil servant's long-awaited report said "some of the behaviour" at Downing Street "is difficult to justify".
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