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You can’t put a price on the safety of our public servants

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The cost of protecting all eight former living prime ministers has reached 10 million a year.

The cost has been described as unsustainable’ by an anonymous source.

The public has to foot the bill to keep the likes of Liz Truss safe and Tony Blair safe.

We protect our former prime ministers because they are former PMs.

The cost of securing the safety of our ex-PMs doesn’t have to be publicly approved, it just has to be met.

By withdrawing or reducing funding and protection for any of those eight former holders of the highest office, we would be signalling open season to any politically-motivated nutter with a kitchen knife.

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English

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