article_snippet: Mr Blair has given Labour more than £100,000, in an apparent bid to ingratiate Mr Blair with current Labour leader Ed Miliband.
article_snippet: The former prime minister, who has a strained relationship with the Labour leader, announced last night that The former prime minister, who has a strained relationship with the Labour leader had given £1,000 to each of the 106 candidates fighting target seats for Labour in
article_snippet: Mr Blair, right, has given Labour more than £100,000 in an apparent bid to ingratiate Mr Blair with current Labour leader Ed Miliband, left .
article_snippet: a donation to all 106 campaigns represents a relatively modest gesture from Mr Blair, whose personal fortune is estimated at anything up to £100million following years of lucrative consultancies with big corporations and foreign regimes and a string of high-profile property deals.
article_snippet: The source of the cash is likely to provoke unease among some Labour MPs, given controversy over Mr Blair dealings with dictatorships such as Kazakhstan, and the fact that Mr Blair remains under the shadow of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, which is due to be published after the election.
article_snippet: a donation to all 106 campaigns is a relatively modest gesture given controversy over Mr Blair dealings with Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, pictured .
highlights_snippet: Former PM has given £1,000 each to 106 candidates fighting target seats .
  
highlights_snippet: But donation is relatively modest as he personal fortune is up to £100m .
  