Kenny B wrote: The Daily Mail does good hatchet jobs on opponents and their families but it doesn't give comparisons against the "troughing" of Chris Patten over the same period or Leon Brittan over a period of roughly twice the length of the two others purely as examples of UK commissioners from around the same era.

The £10 million is a mix of past salaries, allowances and pension benefits that allow a super affluent retirement. They probably don't have millions to spend at will. However the point that the EU is a super gravy train for past politicians explains why so many of them are in favour. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas.