Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Blair (left) and Clegg hosted the private dinner at the five-star Corinthia hotel in London in January. Blair (left) and Clegg hosted the private dinner at the five-star Corinthia hotel in London in January. Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM's consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. He and Clegg, the former deputy prime minister who at the time was a senior executive at Meta, invited leaders of six tech companies to dine with Poppy Gustafsson, who was the government's investment minister responsible for persuading firms to invest in Britain. Blair is an evangelical proponent of the revolutionary potential of technology to transform faltering public services and has long courted alliances with leaders in the industry.