David Cameron has earned more than £1.6m from lucrative speeches and media appearances since stepping down after the Brexit vote, new accounts show.
The former Tory prime minister, who resigned after losing the EU referendum in 2016, garnered £836,168 in profit in the year up to April 2019, according to documents filed to Companies House.
Accounts for the Office of David Cameron Ltd show he also netted £790,274 in the previous year, taking his overall profits beyond £1.6m since he stepped down.
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The figures exclude profits from his memoir ‘For the Record’, which was published in September last year, meaning its financial success will not be apparent until the next tax year.
Mr Cameron famously retreated to a £25,000 shepherd’s hut in his garden in Oxfordshire to pen the memoir, with profits from the book expected to go to charity.
The new accounts were filed on 31 January – just as the UK prepares to finally leave the EU, nearly three and a half years after the Brexit vote.
Mr Cameron resigned on the morning after the UK voted to leave the EU, bringing an abrupt end to his six-year term in Downing Street.
He had campaigned hard against Brexit, which he described at the time as an act of “economic self-harm”.
Since leaving No 10 and standing down as an MP shortly after, Mr Cameron has taken several lucrative roles in the private and charity sectors.
These include chairman of the advisory board of US artificial intelligence business Afiniti, president of Alzheimer’s Research UK and chairman of the National Citizen Service’s Board of Patrons.
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Following his resignation, the former prime minister reportedly could command up to £120,000 per speech.
Mr Cameron is listed as an owner of the business, based in North Lincolnshire, with his former political secretary Laurence Mann as the only director.
Separate figures also reveal that Theresa May earned nearly £400,000 from making speeches after she resigned as prime minister last year.
The former prime minister was paid £100,000 for a speech in Zurich on the day after the election in December, and £75,500 from the US bank JP Morgan Chase for another address.
She also earned a £190,000 “signing fee” from an American speakers agency last month, which will be paid to a new company called Office of Theresa May.
