on his way to power, tony blair promised tax reform but he and his wife saved money when they bought this place in central london in 2017 — it cost them £6.5 million. stamp duty on a property like this would be more than £300,000, that is what you or i would pay if we bought this property direct from someone else, but the blairs did not pay it. that is because the property was owned by an offshore company, and the blairs bought that company rather than the property itself, no rules were broken, no stamp duty to pay. that does not look great and so, l even if what they did was perfectly legal and legitimate in the business i world, it feels instinctively really. unfair because they got access to an advantage that - the rest of us don't have. cherie blair told the bbc