Tony Blair to advise next government of Albania Tony Blair has agreed to advise the next government of Albania, opening the way for a deal which could be worth millions of pounds. A party spokesman refused to say how much Mr Blair’s Government Advisory Practice (GAP) will be paid, although the figure is likely to be several million pounds. GAP’s contract in Kazakhstan, an oil rich autocratic state, is said to be worth as much as £16million – a figure Mr Blair’s office disputes, although it refuses to specify what figure it considers correct. GAP’s contract to advise the state government of Sao Paulo, the economic powerhouse of Brazil’s fast-growing economy, is worth almost £4million a year. According to local media reports, Mr Rama first met Mr Blair in London in June 2010. The next month the Blairs visited Kosovo with Cherie Blair making a detour to Albania as the guest of Rezart Taci, an oil tycoon. She flew on a private jet paid for by Mr Taci to Tirana, where she opened a television station, which the multi-millionaire owns. Another Briton to achieve cult status in Albania was Sir Norman Wisdom, the late comedian, His comedies were the only Western films allowed to be shown during Hoxha’s dictatorship as he saw them as classic illustrations of the struggle of a proletarian hero against the ruling classes.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:00:37 +0000
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