“I am now like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function,” claimed Boris Johnson on his resignation as prime minister in 2022, standing outside Downing Street for the last time. Adding that he would be “gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific… like Cincinnatus I am returning to my plough.”
But the classics-loving Johnson, who departed as an MP the next year, did not entirely stop working. He has picked up several jobs: as a newspaper columnist for the Daily Mail, a public speaker who travels the world, and is also said to be working on his memoirs — all lucrative gigs.
