Rishi Sunak 'has his fingerprints all over' £70 BILLION of wasteful spending, duff deals and crony contracts, according to research based on official figures.
Analysis reveals an average waste of £23 billion a year since 2019 - most of it blown while the Prime Minister was Chancellor.
A tracker of squandered public funds, prepared by campaign group Best For Britain, includes at least £20.5 billion budgeted for the 'Test and Trace' service.
A Public Accounts Committee probe later found "no evidence" it had any impact on reducing Covid infections.
It also includes £3 billion spent filling civil service posts with temporary agency workers and £120million on the ‘Festival of Brexit ’ flop - all while Sunak was Chancellor.
The analysis separates questionable spending into ‘outrageous outgoings’, ‘duff deals’ and ‘crony contracts’ - handed to firms with links to ministers, MPs or Tory Donors.
While Mr Sunak would not necessarily have personally signed off the spending himself, he ultimately held the purse strings for all government spending during his time as Chancellor.
The group’s analysis found Mr Sunak was Chancellor when at least £68bn of the identified spending took place, with billions more spent over periods where he was in charge for at least part of the time.
It lists the £4.3bn handed to Covid support fraudsters which was written off by the Treasury last year.
In May, Mr Sunak was accused of using taxpayers’ cash to repair his image after the Treasury spent £1.3m over two years on polling and focus groups.
It followed damaging revelations around his family’s tax arrangements and that he held a US green card - but the Treasury denied the claims.
Best For Britain Chief Exec Naomi Smith said: "The Conservatives want to act like installing yet another leader wipes their slate clean but Rishi Sunak was Chancellor until June, meaning his fingerprints are all over this egregious waste and the current economic crisis."
Almost £4bn was written off between 2019 and 2020 on cancelled projects and wastage by the MoD.
And items added to the list since it was first published in January include Liz Truss spending almost £2m jetting around the world on overseas visits in her last few months as Foreign Secretary.
The £900,000 spent on researching Boris Johnson ’s doomed dream of a bridge to Ireland is also new to the list, as is the £8.7bn the Mirror revealed in February had been spent on PPE and equipment that expired or was unusable.
Ms Smith added: “After twelve long years, this Government has lost all credibility and is inflicting real pain on millions of people because they’re out of ideas and have proven their incompetence. They must not be allowed to stagger on, they must call a general election.”
A Government spokesperson said: “We are focused on restoring economic stability whilst protecting the most vulnerable and public services.
“To help households through these challenging times, we are providing £1200 extra to the 8 million most vulnerable, on top of the Energy Price Guarantee, and we have reversed the rise in national insurance contributions and changed Universal Credit to help working households keep more of what they earn.
“All contracts awarded during the pandemic were done in line with procurement regulations and all government spending is routinely published - ensuring value for money for hard working taxpayers and full transparency for scrutiny.”
