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Liz Truss still cashing in from her tiny term in office

The mayfly-like former prime minister has taken nearly £320,000 in public money since leaving Downing Street

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Former prime minister Liz Truss. Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images

Liz Truss this week declared an interest in running for office once more – but until that day comes she’s happily not short of a few quid thanks to her mayfly-like period as prime minister.

New figures show Truss has trousered £319,925 in ‘public duty allowance’ since her exit from Downing Street, the equivalent of £6,529 for each day she was in office. The allowance was introduced to assist former prime ministers still active in public life, which, by hosting a little-watched podcast on Mike Graham’s YouTube channel, Truss apparently is.

Her latest handout – just published in the 2026 Cabinet Office Annual Report – came in at £98,131. Previous reports show that she received £97,152 last year, £101,332 in 2024 and £23,310 in 2023.

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Ahead of her post-PM allowance, Truss bagged £18,660 in severance pay – a more modest £380 for each day in office – as well as £5-10,000 in remuneration and a £500 ’benefit in kind’ payment related to use of the Downing Street residence.

The new Cabinet Accounts – in which the bumper £860,000 exit package for ex-cabinet secretary Sir Chris Wormald, sacked by Keir Starmer, emerged – also itemise payments to Truss’s predecessors in number 10.

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Super-rich Rishi Sunak has declined the allowance, but Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and John Major all claim it, with the most recent combined total for the seven former PMs, including staff pension costs, coming in at £804,746. Johnson, Blair and Major all claimed the maximum £115,000 allowed under the scheme.

Meanwhile, Truss has got herself a new job, joining Florida International University’s Adam Smith Center as a senior leadership fellow alongside fellow right wing politicians James Campos, a former US Department of Energy official under Donald Trump, Vince Lago, mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, and Dominik Tarczyński, an MEP for Poland’s hard right Law and Justice party.

“Great to kick off my Semester as Senior Leadership Fellow at @FIU talking about British Politics and Government and how to get the country back on track,” she cheered on, inevitably, X. If only she’d had the chance to put her plans into action!

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