Almost £10m of public money spent on subsidies for former PMs

Senior politicians have called for Boris Johnson’s taxpayer support to be investigated after the Boris Files revelations. Composite: Guardian Design / Getty

Almost £10m of taxpayers’ money has been spent on funding the public lives of former prime ministers over the last three decades, a Guardian analysis has found.

All former PMs are able to claim up to £115,000 a year – until the end of their lives – in a subsidy to enable them to contribute to public life after they have left Downing Street.