Liz Truss has been announced as the UK's new Prime Minister, taking over from Boris Johnson who was forced to resign this summer after three years in power - but what will the former PM do next? While the focus will be on how the country's new leader will be picking up the reigns to navigate the nation's most troubling issues, experts argue the public has underestimated how much we will still see of Mr Johnson.
One British politics specialist has said that the former PM won't slip away from the limelight easily, as he has become one of the first real celebrity politicians the country has seen - arguably known more for his character than policies.
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Another believes Mr Johnson will be making more money than ever through his writing, as both experts have no doubt that just because the ex-journalist has stepped down from the biggest job in politics, it doesn't mean that he will no longer be making headlines, with many written by himself.
Professor Matthew Flinders, director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for understanding politics at the University of Sheffield, says: "Boris Johnson is a very exceptional politician with a very distinctive skill set and he is unlikely to slip away into the political wilderness or off stage.
"He was the first real celebrity politician in British politics and I suppose in many ways, he's going to retain that celebrity politician status."
The professor is certain that the new PM's first task will be to manage their predecessor's behaviour - as the last thing they need is a 'buffooning' backbencher distracting from the main job at hand.
"One of those big challenges that nobody is really discussing is going to be managing Boris Johnson," Prof Flinders continues.
"Boris Johnson is a highly astute manager of the media - he's great at setting the agenda and great at saying a lot by saying a little, with incendiary phrases.
"He still has a charismatic reach over sections of the UK public that for some reason or another, like him, even if they think he wasn't such a good Prime Minister, there's actually a chance that his popularity might increase.
"So a key challenge for the next Prime Minister is going to be building a relationship with Boris Johnson that doesn't become disruptive."
Mr Johnson will be able to claim the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA), which is paid to all former PMs with a current limit set at £115,000, but the politics specialist believes he will be hungry for more.
He is driven by a fear of financial failure, Prof Flinders says, so will work to secure his position on the lecture circuit and on finally completing his biography on Shakespeare.
In 2015, when he was then the London mayor, Mr Johnson signed a deal with Hodder & Stoughton to write the book for a reported £500,000.
However, the publication has been repeatedly pushed back, with him saying in 2019 that being PM meant "that I won't be able to rapidly complete a book on Shakespeare that I have in preparation. I honestly say that will grieve me."
Prof Flinders says he will also be back writing columns in the Telegraph - where he used to earn £275,000 a year - and making appearances on shows like Have I Got News For You.
While his predecessor Theresa May is estimated to have earned more than £2m since leaving No 10, Boris Johnson is expected to earn more for his speeches across the globe.
Prof Flinders is not so sure the former PM will be comfortable bouncing back into the cabinet or as a backbencher.
"I think it is absolutely impossible to make any predictions when it comes to Boris Johnson," he asserts.
"Boris is someone who craves attention and is angry with the Conservative Party.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he strategically kept his head down and was well behaved for an initial period.
"But Boris Johnson prided himself on not following the rules on breaking conventions; that was his raison d'etre. That's what got him into power."
He cites historian Peter Hennessy's 'Good Chaps' theory of good manners in Government, where there is an unspoken agreement for a protocol that sees former PMs keeping their heads down after standing down.
But Boris will "refuse”, according to prof Flinders.
Dr Nigel Fletcher, teaching fellow in politics and contemporary history at King's College London, agrees that Mr Johnson will make a healthy living from his memoirs and public speaking.
"With Prime Ministers nowadays leaving office relatively young, the question of what they do next has become more difficult," Dr Fletcher, who worked for over a decade as a political and policy adviser in the House of Commons, the London Assembly and the Conservative Research Department, says.
"The usual expectation is that they'll write their memoirs and travel the world making speeches for generous fees, and Boris Johnson certainly seems well suited to that.
"But in terms of serious roles on the political and world stage, I don't think anyone would expect him to follow Tony Blair and become a diplomatic envoy in the Middle East, for example.
"A lot will depend on whether he stays in Parliament or not. If he is genuinely plotting a comeback in future that might make sense, but it's hard to imagine him sitting quietly next to Theresa May on the backbenches for the next few years.
"He also has a fairly marginal seat, so he might take the opportunity as Tony Blair and David Cameron did of standing down before the next election.
"If he does, he will have more freedom to pursue other interests, though as Cameron discovered, business deals can become rather controversial."
The lecturer also reckons the likeliest course for Boris Johnson will be a return to writing - where he'll be making more money than ever, alongside his long-delayed book on Shakespeare "now taking on heavy irony after his tragi-comic premiership."
"He might even return to the Telegraph to write columns for even more money than before, but in the medium term, his memoirs are likely to be somewhat more sensational and widely-read than those of many former Prime Ministers."
Dr Fletcher adds: "Like his hero Churchill, he will be aiming to ensure that history is kind to him by writing it himself."
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