Boris Johnson nears £5m in earnings since leaving office

Boris Johnson has registered an beforehand outgo of astir £2.5m for speaking events, successful his latest declaration of extracurricular earnings.

It brings the erstwhile premier minister's declared income since leaving bureau past September to £4.8m.

This full includes a £510,000 beforehand for his governmental memoirs.

Mr Johnson has besides registered a further £13,500 successful accommodation from JCB brag Lord Bamford and his woman Carole for January and February.

It brings the full worth of accommodation helium has registered from the mates for him and his household since leaving Downing Street to £74,000.

The astir £2.5m beforehand successful his latest declaration is from the New York-based Harry Walker speaking agency, for an unspecified fig of speeches.

The outgo is the latest objection of the lucrative careers that tin beryllium enjoyed by erstwhile holders of precocious bureau erstwhile they leave.

The £4.8m successful net that Mr Johnson has declared since leaving No 10 conscionable implicit 5 months agone is much than 50 times his yearly £84,144 MP salary.

A institution acceptable up to enactment his activities arsenic a erstwhile PM has besides received £1m from crypto currency capitalist Christopher Harborne.

Mr Harborne has antecedently donated much than £15m to the Conservatives, the Brexit Party, and Reform UK.

Mr Johnson was forced to resign by his ministers past July aft a bid of controversies prompted a wide walk-out among his ministers.

He attempted a comeback aft his successor, Liz Truss, discontinue wrong weeks of taking bureau past September.

But contempt obtaining capable enactment from Tory MPs to tally successful the contention to regenerate her, helium yet stood aside, clearing the mode for Rishi Sunak to go premier curate successful October.