Michael Levy, Baron Levy
Overview
Levy is a Labour
Labour Party (UK)
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member of the House of Lords
House of Lords
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and was the chief fundraiser for the UK Labour Party. A long-standing friend of former Prime Minister, Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
, Lord Levy spent nine years from 1998 to 2007 Tony Blair's special envoy to the Middle East
Middle East
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.
Quotations
"So, to borrow the phrase Tony Blair used about himself during the first row over New Labour's funding, I regard Lord Levy as 'a pretty straight sort of guy'."
Dominic Lawson|Dominic Lawson, The Daily Mail|The Daily Mail, 17th July 2006.
"There is a general feeling, and it is increasingly sensitive, that this is all about 'get the Jew'. I do not play the anti-Semitic card. But within my immediate community, and the Jewish community generally, they are sensitive to the fact that this is becoming all about one Jew."
Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet speaks out on Levy's behalf over "Cash for honours|Cash for honours", The Daily Telegraph|The Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2007.
Category:British Jews|Levy, Michael