Should Liz Truss go to national services including wreath laying at Cenotaph

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If she lives to her mid 80s, she would attend more wreath laying on Remembrance Sundays and national services - such as today's 80th anniversary VE Day at Westminster Abbey (for example) than days served as PM.

I know she had Queen Elizabeth dying two days into her short PM stint.

These events that former PMs attend should not be an automatic right.

Is it an automatic "right" or a duty?

It's a duty, I am sure she'd rather not do all of them but it's part of the job.

Actually, given the very minor amount of work she had to put in given her short tenure as PM, and the ongoing security costs, I think the least she can do is have to continue to show up for things like this. Make her do her duty, as the post above says.

You can’t really into the realm of picking and choosing which prime ministers attend such events. Who decides? She was prime minister so she gets the same privileges/duties as all former PMs before her and following her.
And yes, she is the only PM since 1952 to have been in power with two different monarchs. That is just the way it goes.

She can at least do her duty. Remembering the war dead is a good and honourable thing to do.

She’s technically a former PM so yes. But if I was her I’d be too embarrassed to show my face to any of these types of events. However, she has no self awareness or shame so she’ll just carry on her merry way no doubt.

I think it's entertaining that she will continue to show up. It will be an annual reminder for probably the next 30 years or so of just how useless she was. Because every commentator from now until she dies will reference how short her premiership was, and the chaos she caused. She will have to live with the constant reminders for the rest of her life :)

She's a former Prime Minister and I believe we pay her a generous pension. The very least she can do to deserve it is to turn up and lay a wreath every now and again.

As others have said, it is a duty and not a privilege.

We are a respectable country, and she did hold the office via the usual channels, however briefly, so we should also treat her the same way as any other former office holder.

To do anything else would demean the country.

Weird that you did the sums about how long she lives and services. That implies being over invested! The more people laying wreaths the better, surely.

Good on her I say. Wherever she was like as PM she’s doing her duty and showing her face. I couldn’t be bothered to go to all these boring ceremonies in the same position so she’s doing better than me. It’s hardly like they’re fun.

Does Blair go?

YABU.

Pissing about with which former PMs should go is unseemly. Shits on the dignity of the occasion. She's a former PM, our custom is that former PMs attend, she should go. If we start messing with that, it would be easy enough for someone to argue that she has more moral right to be there as she's responsible for fewer war deaths of British citizens than any of the others, for example.

You also can hardly make arguments based on how many she's likely to attend when she, like any of us, could keel over tomorrow.