Former Prime Minister Theresa May Earns £2.1 Million from Speaking Events

It has been reported that Theresa May was paid £109,000 for a five-hour speaking event.

The former Prime Minister earned the money the previous month for a speaking engagement with the Danish Bar and Law Society in Copenhagen, according to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

In the three years after leaving Downing Street, 65 years old Mrs. May is said to have earned more than £2.1 million on the profitable speaking circuit.

Other earnings shown on the register include a £160,370 advance payment from JP Morgan Chase in April 2020 for two speaking engagements that were canceled.

Both were scheduled again and happened on 18th March, 2021 and 16th November, 2021.

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio awarded her roughly £46,800 for a virtual speaking event. According to the register, the event lasted four hours.

Boris Johnson and his friends brought down Mrs. May’s tenure as Prime Minister in 2019 over how to carry out Britain’s exit from the European Union.

She cast her vote in the vote of confidence this week in a glistening floor-length blue ballgown and sequined heels, and she didn’t specify which direction she voted this time, 3 years after winning a vote for herself with a larger margin.

As she walked out of Committee Room 10 at Parliament, the Conservative heavyweight claimed she wasn’t ‘answering any questions,’ but that she was headed to speak at a dinner celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and was seen departing in a car.

While Mr. Johnson is not known to have publicly stated that he voted against Mrs. May, he had withdrawn from the government at the time and was opposed to her Brexit plan, so it is suspected that he did.

It has already been speculated that if Mr. Johnson loses his Conservative Party leadership, Mrs. May may return to the Cabinet in a high position like Chancellor of the Exchequer.

On December 12, 2018, Mrs. May faced a vote of confidence in her leadership. Sir Graham Brady, then and currently the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee of MPs, announced the contest early that morning, with the ballot taking place between 6 and 8 p.m. on the same day.

Mrs. May needed at least 159 Conservative MPs to gain a majority since there were 317 Conservative MPs who could vote.

At 9 p.m. that night, the outcome was announced, with 200 MPs (63%) expressing confidence in Mrs. May and 117 (37%) expressing dissatisfaction.

This made it possible for Mrs. May to continue her roles as party leader and prime minister for the short period.

After multiple failures to get her Brexit proposal through the House of Commons and a catastrophic act by the Conservatives in the European elections, she announced her resignation just five months later.

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