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TEHRAN, July 31 - Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has finally left a taxpayer-funded home amid public criticism that he was making money by staying in the mansion while renting his own property in London.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Workers loaded a series of white boxes into removal vans parked outside the grace-and-favor home in One Carlton Gardens in central London late on Monday.
The property used by Johnson during his time as foreign minister was believed to be leased by the Foreign Office for a rent of 482,341 pounds a year in 2015.
People gathered outside the house in protest over the past few days. The protesters, many of them opposed to Johnson’s role in the victory of a referendum for Britain to leave the European Union two years ago, parked a removal van outside the property with a banner reading “Leave Means Leave Removals Ltd”, a reference to Johnson’s famous slogan during the Brexit campaign.
The protesters believed Johnson had wasted tens of thousands of pounds of the taxpayer money by staying in the property since he quit as foreign minister earlier this month.
A controversial figure known for his colorful language, Johnson once described his salary of 250,000 pounds as a chicken feed. He is expected to receive another 17,000 pounds as a payoff at the end of his career as foreign minister.
Johnson resigned from the cabinet after Prime Minister Theresa May announced his white paper for the final phases of Britain’s negotiations for leaving the European Union.
Johnson and David Davis, the former Brexit minister, said May’s plan for leaving the EU was a blow to public aspirations for a genuine Brexit and could make Britain a future colony of the EU.
Jeremy Hunt, the former Health secretary, replaced Johnson as Britain’s foreign minister.
Source: Press TV
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