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Scorned at Home, Tony Blair Builds Business Empire Abroad

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On a snowy morning in the middle of February, Tony Blair, looking trim from his four- to five-times-a-week workout regime, is sipping coffee in his office in London’s Mayfair district.

He’s sitting in a Georgian town house that was in the late 18th century the site of the first U.S. embassy to the Court of St. James’s. Now, almost six years after he resigned as British prime minister, it serves as the epicenter of a new Blair empire, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its May issue.