Ex PM’s £3.5m in second-job fees plus political donations since leaving Downing Street sends mixed signals about his future plans
Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAPhotograph: Victoria Jones/PAthat his government chose last year to drop plans to cap how much MPs could make from second jobs outside parliament.
Speculation is now rife that Johnson will use the money coming into his office to launch a political comeback – emphatically denied by his allies – especially with Rishi Sunak failing to make much headway in the polls.his office has taken £1m from Christopher Harborne But the truth is that if Johnson does want to return to frontline politics then some of the largesse he has benefited from over the last few months may prove an obstacle.
However, his lifestyle continues to be subsidised by a wealthy Tory donor, with Lord Bamford and his wife giving him use of a £20m London townhouse and a cottage in the Cotswolds. But he is believed to been a backer of a leading cryptocurrency and a crypto exchange, as well as owning AML Global, an aviation fuel business. His bankrolling of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party also places him firmly on the hard pro-Brexit right of the Conservative party.
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