What could Boris Johnson do next? How Former Prime Ministers Now Spend Their Time

Boris Johnson's resignation has raised questions about his future career as he awaits the election of a new Tory leader to replace him as Prime Minister.

So that the MP for Uxbridge was Mayor of London, he was paid around £250,000 a year for his second job writing columns for The Telegraph newspaper.

In a 2009 interview, he called the sum "chicken food" and said his comment was fair that it was "frivolous". Now forced to give up his main job, he is likely to consider turning to journalism as he could be paid higher rates than he himself could take seriously.