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Liz Truss entitled to £115,000 a year despite only serving 45 days as PM
Liz Truss is entitled to more than £100,000 a year for the rest of her life as a former prime minister, despite only being in office for 45 days.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/liz-truss-entitled-to-115000-a-year-151234500.html
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If I understand this correctly, the £115,000 is ONLY for specific expenses for secretarial/admin staff & travel to engagements as an Ex PM, it is not an ex-gratia entitlement to which she would automatically be entitled.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63340998
But fact remains that MPs live in a different world to the rest of us. Surely this payment should only kick in when a PM ceases to be involved in frontline politics as an MP. To be fair to May, she is clearly taking that into account in relation to her reduced claim.
In addition, this is clearly open to abuse by the dishonest. What's the betting that Boris claimed as "expenses" his flight to the US to trouser money for public speaking?
The World has changed. We live in a mad world where ex-PMs earn more than PMs. It's an open secret that Cameron earned far more in the year after being PM than he ever did as PM.
Why is it that people who preach austerity always seem first in the queue for lavish handouts?
They would never claim salaries for their other half.
They seem to see it as a challenge.
Who can take the p155 the most.
The costs are a reimbursement of incurred expenses for office costs and secretarial costs "arising from their special position in public life" - for example office costs, salaries for staff who help them with their work in public life, or travel to events where they're appearing as an ex-PM.
Both John Major and Tony Blair claimed the full amount for 2020-21, Gordon Brown claimed £114,712, David Cameron claimed £113,423 and Theresa May claimed £57,382.
Yes, but we have to be fair about this, it's NOT an automatic pension or salary, it is specifically for expenses. And I don't necessarily agree with that, but it's a lot different to a pension.