Brown linked to $100k speeches
By politics.co.uk staff
Gordon Brown could raise eyebrows by making after-dinner speeches worth $100,000 each, according to a report.
The former prime minister told GMTV before the general election that if he lost he would do “charity or voluntary work”, adding: “I just want to do something good.”
Now it has emerged Mr Brown has been taken on to the books of a speaker agency for events in the Middle East and Asia which could earn him $100,000 (£64,000) a night, the Spectator reported.
The ex-prime minister had sought to distance himself from his predecessor in No 10, Tony Blair, whose after-dinner engagements have proved extremely lucrative.
He has been seen infrequently in parliament despite having decided to stay on as Labour’s MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
A spokesperson said the ex-PM was working on a book, The Financial Crisis, which will vindicate his steps responding to the 2008 global economic crash.
