The invoice covers the period in August 2022 when she used Chevening House in Kent, during the time she was foreign secretary and running to be Conservative leader before being elected to No 10 the following month.
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"The latest invoice contains a mixture of costs for her personally and costs for official government business with civil servants including Simon Case and senior officials from other departments who met at Chevening during the transition preparations. "The latter constitutes the majority of the bill. It would be inappropriate for her to pay the costs for officials as it would have breached the civil service code for civil servants to accept hospitality during the leadership campaign.Chevening House, which has 115 rooms and is Grade 1 listed, was left to the nation by the 7th Earl Stanhope after he died in 1967.
Since then, the prime minister of the day has decided who uses it, with that person usually being the foreign secretary.Ms Truss was the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history, resigning last October, just 44 days after taking over from Boris Johnson.to implement her radical tax-cutting agenda and blamed what she called a"powerful economic establishment" for removing her from Downing Street.
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