Saturday 21 August 2010

£5m? Who needed it anyway? No wonder Tony Blair can afford that charity payout

Daily Mail
"..Nor has the gift curtailed Cherie’s ability to spend for Britain. Undeterred, she has gone on her own £1 million-plus spree in recent weeks. ‘Tony’s revelling in all the attention his donation has given the book,’ a source close to him told me this week. ‘He is utterly determined that this has to be a number one bestseller. Anything less would be a total embarrassment for him.''In the past few weeks, there had been a few worried faces in Tony’s camp. I was hearing whispers at the beginning of the month that the publishers were starting to worry the book might not do as well as they’d expected.'‘Frankly, Tony’s pulled off a masterstroke. This has suddenly become the most talked-about book in the world. His timing could not have been better.’

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