See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Published: 10:46 BST, 21 July 2026 | Updated: 10:48 BST, 21 July 2026
Keir Starmer and his loyalists who have been purged from Cabinet by Andy Burnham are in line for payoffs worth more than £200,000.After replacing Sir Keir as Prime Minister on Monday, Mr Burnham wielded the axe as he culled those closest to his predecessor.Rachel Reeves and 10 others followed Sir Keir out of the exit door as Mr Burnham made wholesale changes to the Labour Cabinet.The new PM drafted in a swathe of his Northern allies to replace the departing Starmerites in a Cabinet reshuffle that continued until late on Monday night.But there is some solace for those sacked Cabinet ministers who served under Sir Keir, as they are entitled to a severance payment of 25 per cent of their annual salary.Ms Reeves, David Lammy, Steve Reed, Peter Kyle, Liz Kendall, Darren Jones, Hilary Benn, Jo Stevens, Nick Thomas-Symonds, Lord Hermer and Baroness Chapman will all be in line for a payoff.Cabinet ministers who are in the House of Commons earn an annual salary of £67,505 in addition to the £98,599 annual salary they are paid for their role as an MP.It means those MPs who have been sacked from Cabinet are due a severance payment of £16,876.
