Courtesy  The Fuardian (UK)

Tony Blair is to take up a senior academic post in the autumn at one of America's most prestigious universities teaching politics and religion.

Yale confirmed yesterday he is to join the schools of management and divinity, at the campus in New Haven, Connecticut.

He will combine his work at Yale with his duties as a special envoy to the Quartet, an international body committed to peace in the Middle East.

He is to spend part of each month in London and part in New Haven.

His work with the Quartet - which represents the United Nations, the US, the European Union and Russia - takes up about ten days a month. Sources close to Blair say that he is taking on an enormous work burden and will be tremendously over-committed in the coming year.

The deans of the Yale schools of management and divinity are in discussion with Blair about how much time he will spend at the university.

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