Well, it makes a change from blaming immigrants and asylum-seekers for pocketing our cash.
“Taxpayers face handing millionaire Boris Johnson a huge annual fund for life – even if he’s forced out by Christmas.
The Mirror has confirmed he can claim a bumper public duties fund after he leaves office, no matter how little time he spends in No10.
That means we could start handing the Prime Minister the full Public Duty Cost Allowance even if he is dumped in a no confidence vote or a general election this Autumn.
The Old Etonian also stands to trouser a £18,860 severance payment for leaving as PM – on top of the £16,876 he pocketed for quitting as Foreign Secretary last year.
But he’d miss out on a special Prime Ministerial pension worth half his salary, as the bumper packages were scrapped in 2013….
The fund is currently worth £115,000 a year and every living ex-PM, plus Nick Clegg who qualifies specially, claimed more than £110,000 each last year.
Sir John Major, 76, claimed £114,935 despite leaving No10 22 years ago.
But all those men served for more than two years each, most of them much longer, while Boris Johnson has a fragile Commons majority of one.
The PM risks being ousted within months if his bids to ram though a Brexit deal – or a No Deal – end in failure.
Meanwhile Mr Johnson made around £750,000 in earnings outside his job as an MP in the 12 months before becoming PM. …
The Cabinet Office did not clarify whether the PDCA covers any security or safety measures for ex-PMs, but pointed us to public documents that say it pays for “necessary office costs and secretarial costs”.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-set-huge-fund-18812778
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