Posted on 01/11/2023 7:15:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
He got over £250,000 for 8 hours work at one event
Boris Johnson has declared staggering sums of money he has been paid for after-dinner speaking engagements since being ousted as Prime Minister. Mr Johnson has made over £750,000 for speaking at thre events in just two weeks.
Mr Johnson was forced to step down as Prime Minister in the summer after a series of high profile scandals and plummeting opinion polls. Since then Mr Johnson, who remains a serving MP for Uxbridge drawing his MP salary, has been picking up lucrative work alongside his day job as a member of Parliament.
According to Mr Johnson's declarations of interest, he received three payments for speaking evenings that took place between November 9 and 23. He has also declared free stays in luxury accommodation at Heathrow airport November.
What events did Mr Johnson speak at?
According to his declarations of interest he received the following:
On November 9 he took part in a speaking engagement for which he received £277,723.89 from independent investment banking and advisory firm Centerview Partners in New York. They also provided transport and accommodation provided for him and two members of staff. In his declaration Mr Johnson said this amounted to nine hours work.
On November 17 he took part in another speaking engagement and "VIP reception" where he was paid £261,652.34 by the Hindustan Times. On top of this he received "transport, food and accommodation provided for himself and two members of staff. He deemed the amount of work to be "eight hours".
On November 23 he had a speaking engagement at the CNN Global Summit in Lisbon. For this is he received £215,275.98 from Portuguese TV channel Televisao Independente, They also provided transport, food and accommodation provided for Mr Johnson and two members of staff. This constituted eight hours of work. The former PM, who was fined for breaking lockdown rules, was also given a donation from Lord Anthony and Lady Carole Bamford who Mr Johnson said provided "accommodation for me and my family in November 2022 and December 2022" with an estimated value £3,500
It seems Mr Johnson travelled in some style receiving over £7,000 equivalent in hospitality from Heathrow Airport Ltd for use of various suites. Mr Johnson had previously said he would "lie down" in front of bulldozers at the airport to stop a third runway.
Feeding the war machine is good business.
Who the heck is Carrie? And why can’t you spell,,,,???
She is Boris’s wife
He’s got seven kids...he needs the money.
Carrie is thw wife of Boris.
Her christian name is Caroline Louise Beavan Johnson.
Carrie is what she choses to use as a public name.
Everyone has to make a buck...
Even just as speaking fees, these aren’t a patch on what Bill&Hilary, or Obama, were getting.
The British are cheap.
Is he paying taxes on all that “income”?
Would like to see full disclosure of his tax returns and financials for the last 10 years.
Why is it considered acceptable for public servants to amass such huge amounts of money while in office? Or shortly after leaving office?
Carrie Symonds was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from January 2021 to September 2022. She was the third female Prime Minister.
How is he not on the dung heap of History?
Maybe he’s related to the Biden’s somehow.
> Mr Johnson has made over £750,000 for speaking at three events in just two weeks. <
Wow. My take-away from this article: I’m going to run for prime minister of the UK. I currently live in the US. I hope there is no residency requirement.
Oh, and I should probably scrub my internet history. I’ve made fun of silly King Charlie in the past.
Far from the dung heap. He might become PM again one day. Still young.
Nick, I don’t think that’s right. I’m not up on most things British, but I’m pretty sure
the first female prime minister was the one and only Margaret Thatcher.
Second Theresa (Brexit-Postponer) May,
Third (ever so briefly!) Liz Truss, who only lasted a few embarrassing weeks.
Carrie was between Theresa May and Liz Truss. From January 2021 until September 2022.
They’re buying favours for when he returns to power. They are probably prohibited from doing this kinda crap when he’s in power, so they’re doing it now preemptively.
Nope. That was Stacy Camerons.
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