Theresa May is not known in Westminster for her oratory. Though try not to tell that to the people of South Korea.
The former prime minister earned £136,000 last month for delivering a speech in Seoul on global responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It takes her total for after-dinner talks so far this year to more than £1 million.
The fee means that the MP for Maidenhead appears to have surpassed Boris Johnson for after-dinner earning power.
Before becoming prime minister in July last year, Mr Johnson was paid £123,000 to fly to India and address a publishing company in the New Delhi quarter of Connaught Place.
In the year and a half since she left Downing Street, Mrs May has had a lucrative set