Kevin Rudd slugs taxpayers more than $6500 for personal stationery

EXCLUSIVE: KEVIN Rudd has slugged taxpayers with bills for more than $6500 worth of stationery, having ramped up his spending ahead of his bizarre bid to win the top job at the United Nations.

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FORMER PM Kevin Rudd has slugged taxpayers with bills for more than $6500 worth of personalised stationery, having ramped up his spending ahead of his bizarre bid to win the top job at the United Nations.

It comes as The Daily Telegraph can reveal the taxpayer-funded cars of more than 20 federal MPs have been involved in prangs recently, with some pollies, including Cabinet figure Christopher Pyne, linked to multiple crashes.

The most recent expense reports reveal Mr Rudd — who fellow Labor figure Kristina Keneally once labelled a “narcissist” — spent $4100 in September 2015 on “personalised letterhead stationery”.

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

A Daily Telegraph analysis of entitlement records show that Mr Rudd (below) spent about $6700 on personalised stationery between July 2014 and June last year.

No other former PM who is now outside parliament has claimed for that specific expense during that period except Julia Gillard, who claimed a tiny $118 in December 2014.

A spokeswoman for Mr Rudd last night denied the claim related to the former Labor leader’s UN ambitions.

“The order of office stationary ... has not been used in relation to any matter concerning the Secretary Generalship of the UN,” she said.