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| Brown earns £60K for 50-minute speech... about the economic crisis | |
| 2010-11-21 | |
| Gordon Brown gave his first paid speech since leaving Downing Street yesterday, earning an estimated £60,000. Mr Brown -- who has barely been seen in public since he stepped down as Prime Minister in May -- was a keynote speaker at a summit in New Delhi, the Indian capital. He gave a 50-minute speech on the global economic crisis and how to prevent another one, which is estimated to have earned him around £1,200 per minute. Other speakers included the Dalai Lama and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. This religious thingy seems to be a good gig! A source said that Mr Brown was chosen because David Miliband -- who lost the Labour leadership battle to his brother Ed -- turned down the invitation. The source added: 'He is getting paid the usual price the leadership summit pays for a foreign speaker -- £60,000.'
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