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Euan Anthony Blair (born 19 January 1984) is a British
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who is the
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and chief executive of the apprenticeships company
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. He is the eldest son of the former British prime minister
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader ...
and lawyer Cherie Blair.


Early life and education

Blair was born on 19 January 1984 and was named Euan after two people: the artist Euan Uglow and a school friend of
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader ...
. Blair was educated at St Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Primary School and the
London Oratory School The London Oratory School, also known as "The Oratory" or "The London Oratory" to distinguish it from other schools, is a Selective Catholic Voluntary Aided secondary school for boys aged 7–18 and girls aged 16–18 in West Brompton. Foun ...
, a highly regarded Roman Catholic grant-aided school in
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, London. At the Oratory he was appointed one of the four deputy head pupils for his final year at the school. Blair graduated with a B.A. in ancient history from the
University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...
in 2005, having attained a 2:1 (upper second class) honours degree.


Early career

Blair spent three months as an unpaid
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with the Republican David Dreier and Republican Party staff of the Rules Committee of the
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. He then worked in the office of the "Blue Dog" Democrat
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. Blair cut short his internship with Harman in May 2006 after a fortnight; a statement from Harman's office cited Blair's graduate school plans, and offers from Harvard's Kennedy School and Yale. In early 2006, Blair had two weeks of work experience with the London public relations company Finsbury Limited. In 2008, he graduated from
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's MacMillan Center with an M.A. in international relations. He accepted this place after being awarded a £50,000 ($100,000) scholarship.


Career

In 2016, Blair and his friend Sophie Adelman jointly founded the company WhiteHat which provides apprenticeships for school leavers. WhiteHat was rebranded to Multiverse in 2021. The
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start-up provides apprenticeships in the UK and USA, specialising in data and technology. Multiverse delivers nine apprenticeship programmes that range from Level 3 (the equivalent of three A-Levels) to Level 6 (the equivalent of a university degree). The company was judged to be "Outstanding" in its most recent (July 2021) inspection by
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. In 2018, the company announced a $4 million seed round led by the Silicon Valley investor
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. In September 2021, Multiverse raised $130 million in a Series C raise at a valuation of $875 million. In June 2022, Multiverse raised $220 million in a Series D raise at a valuation of $1.7 billion. In 2023, the company had sustained a loss every year, reporting a loss of £10.9 million in the year to 31 March 2021, on revenues of £10.1 million. In June 2022, the company was valued at £1.4bn in a fundraising round driven by US
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firms, valuing Blair's stake in the company at £420m. Losses rose to £40.5m on revenue of £45.2m for the financial year ending in March 2023. Blair was appointed
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(MBE) in the
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for services to education. Blair was listed in the '' Sunday Times Rich List'' for the first time in May 2024, with an estimated net worth of £375 million. Blair re-entered the list in 2025 with a net worth of £350 million.


Media coverage

When the
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was in the planning stages,
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader ...
proposed that the Dome must pass the "Euan test" and satisfy what his 13-year-old would want on a day out. The incident for which Blair first attracted significant attention was in 2000 when, aged 16, he was found by police intoxicated in
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, having spent the night with friends celebrating the completion of his
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exams. He apologised for the incident, and was neither prosecuted nor formally cautioned. In 2001, Blair applied to
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. His parents made a formal complaint to the
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that media reports represented an intrusion, and the complaint was upheld. He later took a place at the
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instead. In 2006, it was reported in ''
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'' that Blair had worked as a runner for the film ''
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'' when it was filmed around the
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in summer 2005. The
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MP David Davies and the magazine ''
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'' suggested that Blair's involvement was a contributing factor to the granting of access to the location for filming. However, Nick Daubeny, the location manager for the film, denied that Blair's involvement had helped in any way, saying that Blair had been offered the job after they had worked together during the filming of '' Band of Brothers'' in 2001.


Personal life

Blair was baptised and brought up as
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. In 2005, Blair was romantically linked to
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by the press. Following such reports, Blair sent a fax from Labour party headquarters to national newspapers saying, "I want to make it clear that Luciana Berger is not, and has never been, my girlfriend." In 2013, Blair married his long-term girlfriend Suzanne Ashman at All Saints' Church, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire. The couple have two children and live in London. In 2022, it was reported that Blair and Ashman has bought a townhouse in London for £22 million.


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