Suella Braverman has raked in nearly £60,000 on the international speaking circuit – the highest sum for any sitting MP.
The former Home Secretary bagged £25,000 for speaking at an event in South Korea in May and £20,000 for another engagement in India in March, according to the first register of MPs’ financial interests of this Parliament.
Ms Braverman declared a £11,800 fee for a five-hour talk to a financial intelligence and risk control company in London , equivalent to more than £2,000 an hour, and £6,500 of expenses from the Edmund Burke Foundation for a conference in Washington.
She also declared £14,000 in payments for opinion articles written for the Telegraph and a £27,800 all expenses paid trip to Israel courtesy of the National Jewish Assembly.
Ms Braverman was considered a frontrunner for the Tory leadership before withdrawing last month because she ‘cannot say what people want to hear’.
Suella Braverman received £6,500 of expenses from the Edmund Burke Foundation for addressing the National Conservatism conference in Washington
Ms Braverman was considered a frontrunner for the Tory leadership before withdrawing last month because she ‘cannot say what people want to hear’
While her income from speeches is the highest for any MP in the current register, which covers the year to August 4, it pales in comparison to the vast sums racked up by former prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, who are no longer in parliament.
Truss declared earnings of £250,000 in the year after she was forced to resign, including £80,000 for one speech in Taipei.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson declared an income of £4.8million in the six months after stepping down as PM in 2023, including an advanced payment of £2.5million for several speeches.
Rishi Sunak, who resigned last month but is still an MP, has not registered any speaking engagements for the year. Neither have any of the frontrunners for the Tory leadership, including Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Robert Jenrick.
Meanwhile, Nigel Farage has topped the list of Westminster’s highest-earning MPs, after being paid £98,000 a month for his GB News show alone.
The Reform UK leader’s Register of Members’ Interests reveals £1.2million a year in outside income.
He also earned £16,500 from recording personalised videos on the app Cameo, and £4,000 a month writing for The Daily Telegraph.
Mr Farage declared receiving flights and accommodation worth almost £33,000, paid by a donor, for a trip to the US after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. He said his visit was ‘to support a friend who was almost killed, and to represent Clacton [his constituency] on the world stage’.
He also declared a freebie worth £2,000 for two tickets to a boxing match, and a £1,784 fee for an upcoming speech.
Nigel Farage has topped the list of Westminster’s highest-earning MPs, after being paid £98,000 a month for his GB News show alone
The register shows that he was paid £97,928.40 each month presenting his GB News show, which aired four nights a week before he ran for Parliament.
Mr Farage said: ‘To be clear… the GB News sum paid to me and declared includes VAT, and was for several months of work. It was paid to my company, which has significant expenses. Sorry to disappoint the media.’
He wrote in the Telegraph: ‘I am not ashamed to say I have always worked hard at all the things I have done over the past 40-plus years… And I will continue to work at the same rate. I am an extremely busy person. But I have always been busy. That’s the way I like it.
‘My commitment to public service does not prevent me from having outside interests – nor should it.’
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