Two and a half years have passed since Liz Truss entered – and swiftly exited – Downing Street. The former prime minister has not laid low since then, however, keeping busy by setting up the ‘PopCons’, releasing her memoir and appearing at CPAC alongside Steve Bannon. Yet while the ex-PM will be remembered by the history books for her short but eventful time in politics, her post-parliamentary career is not quite as lucrative as those of her predecessors.
The latest financial statement from her eponymous company reveals that in the year up until March 2025, the Disruptor-in-Chief had just £112,657 in net assets – some way off the sums made by the likes of Theresa May and others. The accounts show that Truss took only £8,000 more than the previous year – despite publishing her memoir Ten Years to Save the West last April.
It comes after Britain’s shortest-serving premier signed up to the same agency as her predecessor Boris Johnson, Chartwell Speakers. Johnson secured a £2.5 million advance for several well-paid speaking events, earning £5 million within his first year out of the top job, while the Maybot raked in more than £400,000 for six talks after stepping down. Rishi Sunak meanwhile last month registered a payment of over £160,000 for a single three-hour speech. Alright for some!
Truss did initially manage to make a bit of extra cash off her own speaking engagements, taking £80,000 for a Taipei talk – but her latest financial statements suggest figures have tailed off somewhat. Staff numbers have risen, though, since Truss lost her seat in parliament in July, with five employees now listed as working for her office, up from three the year before.
Still, the ex-PM has a new gig at least: launching her own Trump-esque social media site this summer. The libertarian politician told a cryptocurrency conference that she felt the ‘deep state’ – including the Financial Times and the Economist – was suppressing freedom of speech in the UK. Speaking to crypto bosses in Bradford last month, Truss announced: ‘What I am doing is establishing a new free speech network, which will be uncensored and un-cancellable, to actually talk about the issues people don’t want to talk about.’
Let’s see how much that makes eh?
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