PM could join lecture circuit and rejoin paper where he complained of ‘chicken feed’ £250,000 salary
Boris Johnson could make more than £5m a year after he leaves Downing Street, experts have estimated.
Regardless of whether his financial straits are real or imagined, there are two certainties, says Tom Bower,: that he is hopeless with money and that he will have no problem making lots of it after he leaves office. In Johnson’s backbench days, when he was earning about £830,000 for newspaper columns, books, speeches and TV appearances, he referred to the £250,000 he received for his Daily Telegraph column asBut as lightly as he weighed it when he was earning the big bucks, there seems to be no doubt that he and theThe biggest bucks, however, are to be made on the lecture circuit: Theresa May has earned more than £2.1m since July 2019.
Andrew Gimson, whose second biography of Johnson will be published this autumn, agrees that Johnson’s main money-raising activities will be on the celebrity lecture circuit. “He will be able to command at least £100,000 per speech in America, Japan, China and Australia, and easily do 15 to 20 of those a year.”
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