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Article: Inside the shadowy (and very lucrative) world of Blair Inc.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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Byline: SPECIAL REPORT Edward Heathcoat Amory
SO, AS the job of European President apparently slips from Tony Blair's grasp, should we feel sorry for our former prime minister, sitting at home watching his dreams of returning to the world stage turn to ashes?
Perhaps not. In fact, there is every reason to believe that Mr Blair might be rather relieved if he doesn't have to go to Brussels, because taking the job would have meant renouncing his current role as a one-man multinational money-making machine.
If you were to take Mr Blair's activities at his own evaluation, you would believe he divides his time between trying to save the world in the ...