Liberal Democrats call for Johnson to be stripped of the £115,000 annual allowance paid to former prime ministers

Charlotte Cane, Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate for South East Cambridgeshire today called on Lucy Frazer MP and Steve Barclay MP to condemn Boris Johnson following the damning House of Commons Privileges Committee report.  And to confirm that they will vote to approve the Committee’s report and the recommended sanction of refusing him a Commons Pass.

Charlotte said:

“It is the Conservative Party who put him in his position in the first place and they should acknowledge that this was a terrible mistake. Both Lucy Frazer and Steve Barclay supported him as Ministers in his government to the bitter end – even as others were resigning to force him to stand down.

Johnson forced through a disastrous Brexit deal – with Steve Barclay as his Brexit Minister – a deal even the Tories now want to renegotiate! He partied while people were dying of Covid, with their nearest and dearest unable to be with them and family and friends unable to attend their funerals; and while frontline staff were isolating themselves from their families and exposing themselves to risk to serve the public. He was known to have lied on many occasions before the Tories made him our Prime Minister and now he has been found to have lied to the House of Commons.  The Committee is right to call for him to be refused a parliamentary pass. Prime Minister Sunak should go further and remove the annual payment of £115,000 to Johnson as an ex-PM. Johnson disgraced that office; he should not be paid another penny in relation to his time in office.”