It's the Telegraph reporting on a group of Remain politicians, but still:
Public money spent on supporting the offices of Britain's five surviving former leaders has jumped by nearly 80 per cent in six years - despite the fact that many of them have gone on to become independently wealthy after leaving 10 Downing Street.
New figures show the costs of supporting the offices of ex-PMs Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, as well as the former deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg, increased from £331,000 a year in 2013/14 - the first figures that are available - to £589,000 last year.
The costs of the Public Duty Cost Allowance work out at around £1,200 a day. The allowance was extended to Mr Clegg for five years from May 2015...
Is there any reason why ex-PMs, or any former politicians, should get the Public Duty Cost Allowance? If it wasn't for Cameron we wouldn't have Brexit, and if not for Blair we wouldn't be in Iraq. And Major gave us Black Wednesday and the first Iraq War. Yet the British taxpayer is rewarding them for helping screw Britain.
Whilst the Telegraph is probably using this story to deflect from any criticism of their favourite PM it does seem problematic that we are funding all these wealthy people for no real reason.