Peers who tried to force second referendum will get EU pensions

SIX peers who voted for a second Brexit referendum are entitled to EU retirement packages, it emerged yesterday.

They built up EU pensions while working in Brussels as MEPs and include Labour’s Lord Cashman, who is entitled to £20,118 annually from his £371,000 pot.

Labour’s Baroness Crawley has a fund worth about £2 0,000 and Lord Tomlinson, a Labour co-operative politician, built up a £173,000 pot.

Lib Dem Baroness Bowles’ pot is £220,000, Baroness Ludford’s amounts to an estimated £371,300, according to the Sun on Sunday. The six voted in the Lords last week for a re-run of the UK’s historic 201 vote to leave the EU. But they lost their bid for the public to have a vote on the Government’s final EU ‘divorce’ deal.

Former Cabinet Minister Priti Patel said the public would be outraged peers were trying to reverse Brexit ‘in a show of loyalty to their Brussels pay packet’.

But Lord Cashman denied the claims saying: ‘To suggest my votes or beliefs are in any way connected to my receipt of a contributory pension is a travesty of the truth.’