Petition · past parliament

Cut all public funding to Tony Blair - this to include protection & expenses

Closed 10,484 signatures

What the petition asks

Tony Blair is costing the taxpayer millions of pounds a year in police protection, as well as blurring the line between his work and his business interests. Tony is too vocal trying to split this country asking for EU remainers to rise up against democracy, he needs to be stopped.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/dont-trust-tony-blairs-rise-brexit-speech-leaves-many-social/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/revealed-the-true-scale-of-tony-blairs-global-business-empire/

Government response · 9 August 2017

We do not comment upon matters of personal protective security and their associated costs.

The Government takes the security of all its citizens extremely seriously and depending on the threat, will ensure that a range of measures are put in place to counter it. It is Government policy not to comment upon matters of personal protective security and their associated costs. Disclosure of such information could compromise the integrity of those arrangements and affect the security of the individual concerned.

Home Office

Timeline

28 Feb 2017 Petition opened for signatures
12 Apr 2017 Passed 10,000 signatures, requiring a government response
2 May 2017 Closed to new signatures
9 Aug 2017 Government responded

Key facts

Signatures 10,484
Status Closed
Opened 28 Feb 2017
Closed 2 May 2017
Response 9 Aug 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.