Cherie’s sister is bankrupt (and owes Mrs Blair £15,000)
While Tony Blair can look forward to cracking open the Bollinger on New Year’s Eve at his £5.75 million mansion in Bucks, having added to his wealth by at least £20 million since he left No 10, things are very different for his wife’s pretty, blonde half-sister, Lauren Booth.
Indeed, so poverty-stricken is Lauren, 43, that she has just been forced to declared herself bankrupt.
Lauren, a writer, broadcaster and human rights activist who recently converted to Islam in an extra ordinary epiphany after she visited a shrine in Iran, is named in the London Gazette as having petitioned for bankruptcy in the run-up to Christmas.