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Career politicians will always do what is best for them. A massive annual salary for life, plus a pension, plus huge salaries to sit on boards and write columns, why would you screw the plebs?He made a living out of firing up the anti-Europeans with made-up stories.
How Boris Johnson's Brussels-bashing stories shaped British politics
As a correspondent, the likely future PM produced exaggerated tales that were lapped up at homewww.theguardian.com
The former prime minister has made over £25,000 a day in outside earnings since he left Downing Street
Earning ...
£164,000 salary
The outside earnings totalled £4.985m
He has also received some £1.1m in donations for his MP’s office
He also has £85,000-a-year’s worth of free office space and bills
Johnson received a £2.5m advance from the Harry Walker Agency in New York for his future speaking engagements
also received £36,000 of free hospitality at UK airports
also reported a £510,000 advance from HarperCollins for his memoirs
An earlier £88,000 payment for a book on Shakespeare was paid by Hodder & Stoughton
columnist for The Daily Telegraph – earning him £250,000 a year
Spending ...
Johnson had agreed to buy a £4m, nine-bedroom house with a moat in Oxfordshire
also recently bought a five-bedroom house thought to be worth over £3m
He'd vote to shut hospitals and tax food if he thought he'd earn more from it.
But people love him still, because he supported Britannia Unchained, which Liz Truss was a co-author. And the key message: "We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. "
Boris and Liz's government wanted to make people work longer hours and retire later in life. "B" is part of the solution.