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

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Timeline

21 Oct 2022	Petition opened for signatures
25 Oct 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 25 Oct 2022

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