While Tony Blair has been making quite a few of his rare interventions recently advising the new Government on various issues including a re-run of his digital ID cards nostrum, he also has other matters in hand.
While Keir Starmer will be in Berlin for the football on Sunday, Blair is in Mumbai attending the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man. Anant Ambani is the son of the chair of Reliance industries. He is marrying Radhika Merchant the daughter of pharma tycoons.
No doubt Blair is there on personal business and probably looked for contacts for the Blair Institute. That of course is fine (allowing for the rich v poor issue) but doesn’t fit too well with someone offering thoughts on how to improve life for ordinary people in the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5x22w0xl0o
The BBC reports that the partying will go on all weekend. At the same time the Durham miners gala will be taking place, an event Blair never attended even when he was a local MP.
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