Wednesday Aug 29th 2007
The wealthiest scribe in the world …?
It took just twenty days after Tony Blair left office for speculation about his memoirs to hit the papers.
Two weeks ago, the news broke that the former Prime Minister, now Special Envoy to the Middle East, had instructed leading US lawyer Robert Barnett to negotiate a publishing deal for his political memoirs. Barnett, who secured a whopping £8 million advance for Bill Clinton’s ‘My Life,’ will now have the task of playing Murdoch-owned Harper Collins off against competing publisher Random House to secure the deal for Blair. The negotiation will be a sensitive one to navigate for Barnett – Blair owes a lot to Murdoch for his support during his Downing Street years, but Random House Chief Executive Gail Rebuck is married to Philip Gould, one of the architects of the New Labour project.
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