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Boris Johnson records £2.5m advance for speaking gigs

08 Feb 2023 1 minute read
Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo Peter Nicholls PA Images

Boris Johnson has declared a nearly £2.5 million advance payment for speaking events.

According to the MPs’ register of financial interests, the former prime minister received £2,488,387.53 as an advance for speaking engagements arranged via the Harry Walker Agency, which has an address in New York.

Mr Johnson also once again declared “concessionary use of accommodation for me and my family in January”, valued at £10,000 and provided by Lady Carole Bamford. He declared the use of accommodation from January to February, provided by Lord Anthony and Lady Bamford, at a value of £3,500.

It adds to the multimillion-pound sum that Mr Johnson has received since leaving office at the end of last summer, mostly for speaking fees but also for his upcoming memoirs.

The money comes on top of the £84,000 salary Mr Johnson receives as an MP, with the former premier among the highest-earning parliamentarians since leaving office.


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Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago

A pile of freshly laundered cash from donors and heaps of praise from Zelensky to go with the pile of bodies outside his door…

The wages of sin never diminish but only grow in this world…

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago
Reply to  Mab Meirion

To paraphrase St Paul’s e-mail to the Romans (6:23)

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago

Sunak says we might give you some fast jets (in your dreams, apart from a gross of Typhoons we don’t have any unless there are a few Hawk T-1’s in a cupboard somewhere the Red Arrows have the only ones, but Mr Sunak knows a man in India who might help you. Ah! there might be a problem there) such a Flim-Flam man is our Mr Sunak, God knows what BS Fat Shanks has told him…but welcome to Valley anyway…

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago
Reply to  Mab Meirion

Shush, don’t mention the F-35…

Marc
Marc
1 year ago

£2.5 m why? Johnson seems to have trouble stringing a coherent sentence together!

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago
Reply to  Marc

Why, because any more would be hard to credit…give PPE contract to A who gets his mate at B to book Fat Shanks for an evening’s verbal diarrhoea, he could whistle Dixie all night but it is just pay-day, crooked style. See the MO with the bank loan and the BBC ‘Chair’, the infernal triangle, see the Atlantic Slave Trade take trade goods to Africa, Africans to the New World and bring sugar and rum and cotton back. It is where the old money players of this game got their stake…

Frank
Frank
1 year ago

If he is earning so much why did he borrow £500,000 a few weeks ago?

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
1 year ago
Reply to  Frank

Blackmail ?

Riki
Riki
1 year ago

I’m sure he was already being payed that sort of money while he was The English Prime Minister, wink! wink!

Karl
Karl
1 year ago

Alot of people seem to love a racist, sexist, bigoted liar.

Windy
Windy
1 year ago

Are any DONATIONS tax deductible I wonder

Steve Woods
Steve Woods
1 year ago

He’s not worth 2p.

David Charles pearn
David Charles pearn
1 year ago

2.5 million the clown can hardly string a sentence together for giving speeches, heaven help the idiots so stupid to pay this buffoon tories with their grubby little hands grabbing everything they can absolutely vile.

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