Almost £1m was spent on severance payments under Truss and Johnson

MINISTERS who lost their jobs during the chaos under Boris Johnson and Liz Truss received nearly £1 million in severance payments, according to a Labour analysis.

Sir Sajid Javid accepted £16,876 compensation after he quit as Mr Johnson's health secretary with an attack on the then-prime minister, official accounts published on Thursday showed.

The figure, released by the Department of Health and Social Care, made him the 20th departing secretary of state to receive a sum after leaving their jobs in the turmoil of 2022.

Along with the dozens of ministers who also accepted the money under the "loss of office" rules, the Opposition's final tally for the payments reached £933,086.