Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair used 400,000 pounds received from a fund for disadvantaged children to set up an office in a five-star hotel, a report has said.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair used 400,000 pounds received from a fund for disadvantaged children to set up an office in a five-star hotel, a report has said.
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u00a0Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed the sum came from Britain 's Department for International Development (DfID), which is meant to fund humanitarian work in developing countries.
But it was spent on rooms at the exclusive American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, where Blair spends one week a month in his role as peace envoy to the Middle East, the report claimed.
He lived in the 19th century hotel near the old city of Jerusalem is one of the most exclusive in Israel, where a suit costs 550 pounds a night.
The cash was paid in 2007 as Britain's contribution to Blair's work representing the European Union, America, Russia and the United Nations.
MP David Amess, who is campaigning to stop Blair getting any more, said that the DfID should not be giving him money. It should be spent on the world's poor and on investment in developing countries.
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