article_snippet: Dozens of Labour candidates were last night under pressure to hand back ‘blood money’ donated by Blair.
article_snippet: Labour has welcomed the donation, despite unease among some in the party about Blair money-spinning links to foreign corporations and dictatorships.
article_snippet: Dozens of Labour candidates are under pressure to hand back ‘blood money’ donated by BlairBlair.
article_snippet: Former Labour adviser Dan Hodges said ‘blood money’ donated by former Prime Minister Tony Blair was not enough to be worth the potential controversy.
article_snippet: Did you take Blair’s blood money?
article_snippet: ”’ Tory sources last night confirmed ’ Tory sources expect some candidates to make an issue of the Blair donation on local leaflets.
article_snippet: SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie said it was ‘extraordinary’ that five Labour candidates in Scotland were taking 'bad money' from Blair .
article_snippet: SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie said SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie was ‘extraordinary’ that five Labour candidates in Scotland Scotland were taking ‘bad money’ from Blair.
article_snippet: SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie added: ‘The fact that Labour candidates are happy to accept donations from the man who led us into the illegal war in Iraq, introduced tuition fees and started the process of NHS privatisation is extraordinary.
article_snippet: ‘Tony Blair’s bad money will do Labour in Scotland no good.
article_snippet: Mr Blair, who has a strained relationship with Ed Miliband, said Rhodri Glyn Thomas, the Plaid Cymru member of the Welsh Assembly for Carmarthen East was giving Tony Blair’s bad money directly to Labour candidates in marginal seats because ‘this is where the election will be won for Labour' 'the election is deeply disturbing that Tony Blair’s bad money will now be used by the Labour Party in Carmarthenshire.
article_snippet: ’ Mr Blair, who has a strained relationship with Ed Miliband, said Ed Miliband was giving Tony Blair’s bad money directly to Labour candidates in marginal seats because ‘this is where the election will be won for Labour.
article_snippet: The donation represents a relatively modest gesture from Mr Blair, whose personal fortune is estimated at anything up to £100 million following years of lucrative consultancies with big corporations and foreign regimes and a string of high-profile property deals.
highlights_snippet: Candidates under pressure to hand back 'blood money' donated by Blair .
  
highlights_snippet: Labour welcomed the donation despite unease among some in the party .
  