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Speaking at his monthly news briefing on 16 March 2006, Tony Blair confirmed his knowledge of the loans but denied any connection between the large loans from three private individuals and whether they were subsequently nominated for honours. [70] Blair said all three men were known party donors and would have made excellent Labour "working peers".
Blair has used his Quartet Tony Blair Associates works with the Kazakhstan government, advising the regime on judicial, economic and political reforms, but has been subject to criticism after accusations of "whitewashing" the image and human rights record of the regime.
Tony Blair's expenses were shredded 'by mistake' when they were the subject of a legal bid to have them published. [24] Conservative Derek Conway was alleged in May 2007 to have paid his son, a student at the time, using public funds despite little evidence of his having done the work he was supposed to do.
Iraq – Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation [1] (more commonly known as the Iraq Dossier, the February Dossier [2] or the Dodgy Dossier) was a 2003 briefing document for the British prime minister Tony Blair's Labour Party government.
The act was passed by the Parliament in the wake of David Lloyd George's 1922 cash-for-honours scandal. In 2006 a number of people connected to the Labour Party government of Tony Blair were interviewed voluntarily at Downing Street in connection with alleged offences under the 1925 Act.
Oxford educated Blair was known for his charisma and more "modern" attitude, encouraging those around him to simply refer to his as Tony (the queen, more of a traditionalist, reportedly demurred ...
The Arms-to-Iraq affair concerned the uncovering of the government-endorsed sale of arms by British companies to Iraq, then under the rule of Saddam Hussein.The scandal contributed to the growing dissatisfaction with the Conservative government of John Major and the atmosphere of sleaze that contributed to the electoral landslide for Tony Blair's Labour Party at the 1997 general election.
In 2008, after Tony Blair left office, she established the non-profit foundation the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which aims to support women entrepreneurs in the developing world.