Euan Blair receives an MBE six months after dad became Sir Tony
eUAN Blair, the son of the former prime minister, has been awarded an mBe for services to education.
The announcement comes just six months after his father Tony was given a knighthood.
multi-millionaire euan, 38, founded the apprenticeship company multiverse.
The firm has got people into thousands of jobs by matching school leavers with more than 300 employers including Google, Facebook and morgan Stanley.
mr Blair co-founded the firm in 2016 and it is now said to be worth more than £600million.
He owns between 25 and 50 per cent of multiverse shares, according to filings, implying a paper fortune in the tens of millions.
Late last year the company raised £95million in a US investor-led funding round.
multiverse has placed more than 5,000 apprentices, and over the past year has doubled its headcount to some 400 staff, as well as launching a
New York office. more than half of the company’s apprentices are people of colour and 36 per cent are from underprivileged backgrounds.
This year mr Blair said the expansion of British universities – a key priority of his father when he was in office – has ‘not worked’ and had failed to create a ‘fairer society’.
At the New Year it was announced that Tony Blair had been granted a knighthood, though a petition to cancel it garnered 1million signatures. euan caused his father some embarrassment in 2000 when at the age of 16 he was arrested for being ‘drunk and incapable’ at Leicester Square.
Celebrating the end of his GCSe examinations, he was found lying alone on the ground by a patrolling police officer and had been vomiting and ill. He was released without charge.
The Daily mail revealed last week that euan had bought himself a five-storey west London townhouse costing £22m. Fitted with a reception, an indoor pool and gym, the fivestorey building is the latest addition to his property portfolio. Twenty years ago, his mother, Cherie, famously gave him a leg up on to the property ladder when she bought a £265,000 flat, plus a second one to rent out, for him to live in while studying ancient history at Bristol University.
His father Sir Tony has an impressive property empire – including his Grade I-listed manor house in Buckinghamshire. He was reported to have saved thousands in tax after a controversial change in stamp duty legislation in 2016.