Liz Truss wants to cash in on being the UK’s shortest serving Prime Minister by giving after-dinner speeches about her disastrous 49-day reign.
A watchdog has given the ex-Premier, who crashed the economy during her seven-week debacle in No10, the green light to take up a role with the Chartwell Speakers agency.
The backbencher could regale guests with how she dealt with the Queen’s death just two days into her premiership, how she and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng devised a Budget which hiked mortgage rates for families, and her humiliation at being forced to quit less than two months into the job.
The former Foreign Secretary’s application to join the lucrative speakers’ circuit was revealed after the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments approved her bid.
It said: “The Committee does not consider joining a speaking agency raises any particular concerns under the government’s Business Appointment Rules, provided it is subject to standard conditions which prevent improper use of information and influence.”
Speakers can pocket huge fees for recalling their time in office, though Ms Truss is unlikely to trouser the whopping £250,000 per speech rate that her immediate predecessor Boris Johnson commands.
She was once the longest continuously-serving Cabinet Minister, having held Secretary of State posts from 2014 at the Environment and Justice ministries, followed by a stint as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, then a switch to International Trade followed by a move to the Foreign Office - her last role before becoming PM in September.
Her whirlwind spell in No10 included the death of the Queen just two days after the monarch received Ms Truss at Balmoral and appointed her PM.
The South West Norfolk MP, 47, led a grief-stricken nation in mourning and read a lesson at the Westminster Abbey funeral.
Later that day, she jetted to New York for a United Nations General Assembly meeting, then later that week Mr Kwarteng delivered his Budget which included £47billion of unfunded tax cuts - a bombshell which stunned international money markets and ultimately hiked interest rates for homeowners.
She was forced into a humiliating reversal of some of the tax cuts and, later in October, accepted her premiership was over - departing Downing Street just 49 days after her arrival.
Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: "After a disastrous six-week premiership in which she took a wrecking ball to the economy, Liz Truss is now the latest in a long line of Tory former prime ministers looking to cash in on their failure.
“She might have forgotten the damage her Tory economic policies caused, but people facing sky-high mortgage repayments have not.
"It takes some brass neck for Liz Truss to now be claiming to be the champion of economic growth.
“For nearly a decade, she sat in a Conservative Cabinet that has presided over a doom-loop of lower growth, higher taxes and broken public services."
Her spokesman declined to comment on her post-prime ministerial career as an after-dinner speaker.
It comes after Ms Truss and fellow ex-PM Mr Johnson rebelled in a vote over a key part of Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal - alongside 20 other Tory MPs.
But speaking about her colleagues who defied the party whip, former minister Caroline Nokes said: "Time has moved on - the people who voted against it are yesterday's men and women." Asked on ITV's Peston whether they are an "irrelevance", she replied: "Yeah - absolutely.”
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