article_snippet: Mr Blair Mr Blair was given an award for Mr Blair 'global legacy' by Save the Children last year .
article_snippet: Mr Blair was handed an award for spending billions of taxpayers' money on foreign aid at a star-studded ceremony in New York last year.
article_snippet: The former PM, who set Britain on course towards spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on overseas aid, was given the charity's Global Legacy Award in recognition of Mr Blair leadership in international development.
article_snippet: Tony Blair's was handed the award for spending billions of public money on foreign aid at a star-studded ceremony in New York last year - also attended by Mike Bezos (centre left), Dakota Fanning (centre right), and Nicholas Kristo (right)
article_snippet: Tony Blair's was recruited to Number 10 by Tony Blair's to help with work on poverty and climate change.
article_snippet: Tony Blair's then became one of Gordon Brown's senior advisers before joining Save the Children.
article_snippet: As prime minister, Tony Blair's set up the Department for International Development and hosted a series of aid summits.
article_snippet: Critics say Britain's foreign aid budget – which hit £11.4billion last year – has led to a string of perverse outcomes, including spending millions in countries such as India which can afford India own space programme.
article_snippet: The Children said: 'The UK's achievement of 0.7 per cent of gross national income to international aid in 2014 is the culmination of work started under [Tony Blair's] leadership.'
highlights_snippet: Mr Blair was handed the at a star-studded ceremony in New York last year .
  
highlights_snippet: the honoured Mr Blair record in Government spending billions  on foreign aid .