Tony Blair slips into his new big-screen role

 
Screen guy: Tony Blair (Picture: PA)
4 July 2014

He’s historically been known for pressing the flesh but in recent weeks Tony Blair has taken to using video links to magnify his charm at parties.

On Tuesday night the former Prime Minister paid tribute via video to gay rights campaigner Michael Cashman at a Stonewall party in the Great Connaught Rooms, while the week before he was beamed into the Savoy to make a speech about TV news anchor Adam Boulton leaving Sky.

Looking every bit the £30 million man, Blair appeared on the big screen with an open shirt and glinting gold chain to say: “Adam leaves very big shoes to fill. And a very big belt, and a very big shirt and very big trousers. Because Adam is a very big man.”

“He was like a snide Julio Iglesias,” one onlooker confides to The Londoner. Snider still was Gordon Brown, who, we hear from Boulton, refused to take part in the farewell film.

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