Blair’s immoral greed

WE have long known Tony Blair is happy to sell his soul for cash – with his principles thrown in free (if he ever had any).

But until today, we didn’t know his asking price for putting his experience and contacts as ex-Prime Minister at the service of brutal and corrupt dictators.

On pages 14-16, the Mail reveals the answer. Mr Blair asks a cool £5.3million a year for his firm to advise Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev on such matters as putting the best spin on his regime’s massacre of striking oil workers.

In office, Mr Blair vandalised the constitution, politicised the civil service, fiddled figures, dumbed down exams, sold honours and ducked vital reforms of welfare and the public services.

Out of office, his treacherous greed continues to bring shame on our country.

AS a champion of making work pay, Iain Duncan Smith cheered when George Osborne announced the National Living Wage. But on Page 8 today, he admits a huge drawback. With pay in Britain five times higher than in poorer EU countries, he says, the further rise will lead to another ‘stampede to our borders’. As leaked papers reveal EU workers account for 75 per cent of growth in UK employment, isn’t this powerful evidence that the best hope of improving living standards for Britain’s poorest lies in pulling out?