Just days after his successor addresses the party faithful at the Conservative conference, David Cameron will be speaking to a very different audience at bargain-basement prices.

The good folk of Rapid City, South Dakota, a stone’s throw from the old west frontier town of Deadwood, can join a “Conversation with David Cameron” for just $7 (£5.40) or $3 for students.



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Cameron, who resigned as prime minister following the Brexit vote and quit the Commons a year ago, will be addressing the sold-out crowd at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, where Elvis once performed, as part of a speaker series by the John T Vucurevich Foundation.



In the shadow of Mount Rushmore, beneath the granite faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, he will impart his lecture on 9 October as part of a series of speakers of “national and international reputation, who have made significant contributions in their respective field to come to Rapid City to share their ideas”.



The John T Vucurevich Foundation, set up by the late South Dakota banker and philanthropist, is dedicated to “making the world a brighter place”.



It is not known how much Cameron will personally receive as payment. The foundation’s website states: “Ticket sales cover only a small proportion of the cost of these events. The balance is paid for by the John T Vucurevich Foundation and is a gift to the people of this community,” the Sunday Express reported.



Along with writing his “frank” biography – for which he reportedly has received an £800,000 advance dwarfed by Tony Blair’s £4.6m and Margaret Thatcher’s £3. 5m – Cameron has filled his post-prime ministerial days by launching himself on the international speaking circuit.



He reportedly earned £120,000 per hour for giving a speech about Brexit in New York last year. George Osborne, meanwhile, is estimated to have earned more than £1m for public speaking. In addition, the former chancellor has a six-figure salary as editor of the London Evening Standard, a job he has taken to with evident relish, and £650,000 a year as an adviser to Blackrock, the US fund management firm.



Cameron, along with Blair, and Gordon Brown, lectures through the Washington Speakers Bureau, which promotes him as “one of the most prominent global influencers of the early 21st century”.



His testimonials on the bureau’s website indicate he “enthralled” chief executives at the World Travel and Tourism Council, with “his views on political and social changes in Europe and the Brexit process that he initiated”. Meanwhile the Futures Industry Association came away “very pleased” with his contribution, exclaiming “he’ll be hard to top”.



He is not the first former Tory prime minister to enlighten Rapid City. Thatcher delivered a lecture in the same series in 1994. Other influential guest speakers have included former US secretary of state Colin Powell, and former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

