PPrime Ministers claim public financial support after leavint office

Personal Toll?.

I seem to remember Blair and Brown making mega bucks from engagements since leaving office Johnson certainly will. I’m not sure what Cameron and May have been doing, Truss deserves nothing.

I think they deserve it - it would have been an awful job with a huge personal toll. A few exceptions, of course if they are only in office for less than a year. In the scheme of things politicians don’t get paid that well compared with high flying business people, for example that Irish jerk who ran down Qantas.

Interesting that most of them have claimed the whole amount or nearly the whole amount. Very interesting.

Couldn't they get another job? A visit to the Jobcentre perhaps?

Good grief! I didn't know about this and I think it is appalling! Thanks for flagging it up Dinahmo.

Interesting. I knew this happened but no idea it was so much.
I feel things like attending funerals of say, heads of state they were involved with is reasonable but chairing a club is pushing it

I am aware of the purpose of the payments.

I've just read John Major's Wikipedia page and it seems to me that being involved with charities and president of a cricket club or two are activities that many people, some famous, perform without claiming expenses. The only items that it seems reasonable to claim expenses for were special guardian to the young princes (for which he would have been a fee) and attending the funerals referred to.

The PDCA was introduced to assist former Prime Ministers still active in public life. Payments are made only to meet the actual cost of continuing to fulfil public duties so it would not necessarily be for the rest of their lives.

The costs are a reimbursement of incurred expenses for necessary administrative costs arising from their special position in public life.

I suppose you could make a Freedom of Information request to see what has been claimed but take, for example, John Major. He has continued to fulfil a variety of public duties as descibed on his Wiki page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major