North Somerset Labour Party
Liam Fox has declared 15 second jobs since the 2019 General Election, earning an income of £86,780. This is in addition to his elected duty as MP for North Somerset for which he earns an annual salary of £86,584, plus expenses and allowances.
In his job at WorldPR, he has received £50,000 in retainer fees for zero hours work. For speaking and newspaper article writing jobs he has earned up to £5,000 and £900 per hour respectively.
List of Jobs
The table below lists the jobs Liam Fox declares on his register of interests, along with the income he has received, and the working hours declared.
| Employer | Pay | Role | Hours |
| Abraham Accords (UK) | Unpaid | Director | Undeclared |
| Apple Print | £5,000 | Speech | 1 |
| Arcs Energy | Unpaid | Advisor | Undeclared |
| Associated Newspapers | £2,600 | Article writing | 4 |
| Bradshaw Advisory | £18,000 | Chair of Global Britain Commission | 23 |
| Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions | Unpaid | Advisor | Undeclared |
| Conservative Friends of America | Unpaid | Chair | Undeclared |
| Unpaid | Director | Undeclared | |
| Global Britain Commission | Unpaid | Chair | Undeclared |
| Quercus Editions | Undeclared | Writing a book | Undeclared |
| Reach Shared Services | £400 | Article writing | 2 |
| Spinoza Foundation | £5,000 | Speech | 1 |
| Telegraph Media Group | £5,780 | Article writing | 11 |
| UK Abraham Accords Group | Unpaid | Chair | Undeclared |
| WorldPR | £50,000 | Advisor | 0 |
| Totals: | £86,780 | 42 |
Controversy
WorldPR, who have paid Liam Fox £50,000 for zero hours work, have previously worked with clients including the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, lawyers working for the Libyan government to secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and the Kazakh and Azerbaijani governments.
Fox has also received £18,000 for chairing the Global Britain Commission – a business lobby group whose members include representatives of the banking industry group UK Finance, the private bank Coutts, the accountancy firm EY, Heathrow, Virgin Atlantic, and Forth Ports.
Comparison
In 2022, Liam Fox earned a total of £124,744. This includes his £84,144 salary as an MP and £40,600 in earnings from second jobs. As the table above outlines, he also held several unpaid roles.
Fox’s earnings in 2022 are almost quadruple the average of those he represents. The average UK household income in 2022 was £32,300.
Labour’s four Bristol MPs have earned a combined total of just £5,628 on top of their MP salaries since the 2019 General Election. The vast majority of this came from completing online surveys. In addition, Thangham Debbonaire earned £3,405 from surveys which was paid directly or donated to charity.
