Cameron gave aides extra severance pay against official advice

Last Updated: July 16, 2016By
Good riddance: David Cameron with his wife Samantha left 10 Downing Street for obscurity on Wednesday [Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images].

Good riddance: David Cameron with his wife Samantha left 10 Downing Street for obscurity on Wednesday [Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images].

This is typical of the “one rule for us, another rule for them” behaviour that is epidemic among Conservatives.

Think of, say, council workers who have been laid off and then re-hired for lower pay because the authorities have been given less money (in real terms) every year under David Cameron and can no longer afford to pay the original rate.

If they were to lose their jobs again, would they be paid more because they had lost the severance benefits associated with their previous contracts? No!

But Cameron gets away with giving a golden handshake to his chums. Perhaps he’d think again if this cash was taken from his own pay, but that would never happen either.

David Cameron demanded that his closest aides receive boosted redundancy pay in one of his last acts as prime minister, overruling Whitehall guidance.

On his last day in office, the outgoing prime minister handed his advisers six months of pay instead of the four and a half months stated in their contracts, taking the total bill for their departure to £1m.
John Manzoni, the head of the civil service, had written to Downing Street this week stating: “I do not believe that there is a case for awarding higher sums than those for which the contract allows.”

Manzoni said he recognised “this is a difficult time for the individuals” and noted that “there had been an expectation amongst some that their severance sum would be higher, which has led to some disappointment”.

But he concluded: “My strong advice is that we continue to abide by the provisions in their contracts of employment.”

The special advisers raised concerns because, despite in several cases having worked in Downing Street since 2010, they were “reappointed” after the general election last year. This reduced their payouts, because the election was just over a year ago.

Source: Cameron gave aides extra severance pay against official advice | Politics | The Guardian

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5 Comments

  1. jeffrey davies July 16, 2016 at 3:32 pm - Reply

    pork crackling hay just got thicker

  2. Dez July 16, 2016 at 4:33 pm - Reply

    A contract is a contract ….. unless you are a civil servant, local government or likewise with connections in high places. The NHS mamnagement is still running their lucrative merry go round scam ie retirement and then reemployment. They just do not get it at all ie integrity and morality I mean. I always took it for granted they
    would ignore what they have been told to do greed goes deep.

  3. Rik July 16, 2016 at 4:57 pm - Reply

    I am so mad reading this, they really make me so ******g mad
    All smug and greacy with a smile on his face no one mentions the deaths of all the poor people his & IDS reforms had done all to save money! !!
    The ****
    Im sorry but I’m mad as hell

  4. philipburdekin July 16, 2016 at 9:25 pm - Reply

    Proves they are only interested in the tax payers money, dodgy Dave and his cohort took everything from those who are less able to afford it. But now they have gone forever after being proved the worse PM&Chancellor ever to have been in charge of our Great Britain.

  5. Ian Mc July 17, 2016 at 5:19 pm - Reply

    SPADs work for both sides an I feel for them whenever anyone resigns or leaves office early. We should though treat them all equally.

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