Tony Blair: the man with the golden gab

The world is paying our former PM millions to hear platitudes and bland 'insights'. But it's power, not money, that he really wants.

Tony Blair earns more money from public speaking than anyone else on the planet. In the Philippines recently, he was paid £364,000 for two speeches. That works out at £6,000 a minute.

Don't ask me why anyone pays him these vast sums. It's baffling. As Gordon Rayner pointed out in The Daily Telegraph, Blair can now earn in half an hour what he used to earn as prime minister in a year: £183,000.

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