Rejected petition Stop Prime Ministers who resign from being paid £115,000-a-year allowances

Parliament should pass a law which stops Prime Ministers from receiving generous taxpayer-funded allowances for life, even if their time in office was disastrous and left millions of people worse off and facing rising bills.

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Prime Ministers who resign as a result of their mistakes are currently ‘rewarded’ with a generous taxpayer-funded allowance. This is despite the fact ordinary people are facing rising bills, many of them as a direct result of those very mistakes. Liz Truss was PM for just a few weeks, during which time the economy suffered enormous damage and ordinary people are facing the consequences. She should not receive a generous allowance-for-life for her disastrous rule.

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Restrict Public Duties Cost allowance to Prime Ministers who won an election: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/625646

Introduce a three month "qualifying period" for Prime Minister PDCA eligibility: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/625990

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Date submitted 21 October 2022
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