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The former foreign secretary has joined an exclusive agency for celebrity speakers. Boris Johnson will reportedly charge up to £30,000 per-speech after signing up to an exclusive celebrity agency, just over a month… Read full article.

The former foreign secretary has joined JLA agency, also home to tennis player John McEnroe and TV chef Nigella Lawson BORIS Johnson has signed to up give after-dinner speeches at £30,000-a-time as he… Read full article.

Boris Johnson has signed up to give £30,000-a-time speeches on the after-dinner circuit as he seeks to raise cash to fund his divorce. The former foreign secretary has joined JLA, an agency… Read full article.

Here are some of the speakers new to JLA: Richard Browning A BP oil trader by day, real life ‘Iron Man’ on other occasions. Footage of Richard in his flying suit has… Read full article.

Sir Bradley Wiggins has dismissed the marginal gains process at the centre of British Cycling’s success under Sir Dave Brailsford as ‘a load of rubbish’. Wiggins was also critical of fellow Olympic… Read full article.

Peer earns more as a public speaker than £134k he was paid while in the Cabinet WILLIAM Hague is raking in £50,000 a week as an after-dinner speaker. The former Tory leader… Read full article.

After-dinner speaking agency JLA has published a list of MPs, businessmen, TV presenters and sports stars on its books, offering a useful guide to what they consider their market worth to be…. Read full article.

Michael McIntyre: £40,000. Ricky Gervais: £25,000. Jason Manford: £25,000. Jo Brand: £10,000-£25,000. Barry Cryer – who after that lot looks an absolute steal – is £2,000-£5,000. This, according to Funny Business (BBC… Read full article.

By Alice-Azania Jarvis John Prescott’s brief stint on television appears to have paid off. The former deputy prime minister won praise for his BBC2 documentary Prescott: The Class System And Me –… Read full article.

By Martin Waller IT HAS not taken him long. David Blunkett, still enjoying his £3 million grace-and-favour Belgravia mansion despite losing his job as Home Secretary, has signed up with an agency… Read full article.

By Rhymer Rigby and Jade Garrett So Angus Deayton can earn £50,000 for hosting an awards ceremony. He’s not the only one. A famous face and a nice line in after-dinner patter… Read full article.