SIR Nick Clegg has sparked fury by taking £113,000 from taxpayers despite his huge Facebook wages.
The former deputy Prime Minister now lives in a luxury £7million home in California.
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But it emerged he has still been claiming the “public duty cost allowance” normally only given to ex-PMs for running an office.
Cabinet Office accounts show he trousered almost the maximum £115,000 allowed in 2018/19, during which he spent his first five months as a Facebook vice-president.
Last night Tory MP Nigel Evans said: “What a snout, what a trough. But we are paying. It is a complete disgrace.”
The ex-Lib Dem leader, who helped oversee austerity in the coalition, reportedly gets a seven-figure salary from the social media giant.
The Cabinet Office said it was told by him around the time he took the Facebook job that it would be the final year in which he would draw from the fund.
Sir Nick lost his Sheffield Hallam seat in the 2017 general election.
The 2018/19 figures show Tony Blair took the maximum £115,000, David Cameron £110,413, Gordon Brown £114,057 and Sir John Major £114,935.
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