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More than 8m of taxpayers' money has been spent on funding the public lives of former prime ministers over the last three decades, a Guardian analysis has found. All former PMs are able to claim up to 115,000 a year until the end of their lives in a subsidy to enable them to contribute to public life after they have left Downing Street.
A foreign billionaire had a Downing Street meeting and phone calls with then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and was described in an official log as a "donor", documents seen by BBC News reveal. Syrian-born former arms deal fixer Wafic Said is not allowed to make political donations because he is a not on the UK electoral roll but his wife, a British citizen who is resident, has declared 2.6m in donations to the Conservatives over the last 25 years.
Maybe Newsom should try the Pete-Bobby challenge: 100 push-ups, 50 pull-ups in 10 minutes, said Watters on his show Jesse Watters Primetime. Let's see what he's got, 'cause last time we looked he was knocking down Chinese kids like bowling pins. Watters then played a video of Newsom accidentally knocking over and falling on a child while playing basketball during a 2023 trip to Beijing.
