Liz Truss She will receive a lifetime pension of 115,000 pounds (131,675 euros) a year as the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after announcing her resignation on Thursday after just 45 days at the head of the Government. Given this, Labor has asked Truss to give up this pension.
In a statement to Radio LBC, the lLeader of the Liberal Democratic Party Ed Daveyhas ensured that the majority of Britons have to work at least 35 years to be eligible for state pension in the UK, which is 211 euros per week.
“I believe that working 45 days should not entitle you to a pension. It’s a lot more than people get paid after a lifetime of work,” Davey explained.
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Liz Truss arrived at Downing Street last september 6 after an internal process in the Conservative Party that lasted several weeks, but this Thursday, in a very brief appearance, he announced his resignation as a result of the chaos of his management due to his controversial economic program, which caused market turmoil, which forced him to reverse almost all measures.
your tax plan the value of the pound sterling plummetedshot up the cost of debt and forced the Bank of England to intervene emergency with a purchase of bonds to avoid the bankruptcy of several pension funds.
Truss fired his finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, and ceded much of his power to one of his critics, Jeremy Hunt, who reversed virtually all of his fiscal measures. However, these moves by the prime minister were not enough to calm a Conservative Party terrified of losing the next elections, scheduled for less than two years and with all the polls giving Labor the winners.