"Tony crony" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1998, The Economist:",
          "text": "...including such folk as Peter Mandelson, a Labour spin doctor-turned-minister, and Lord Alli, an ennobled Asian Tony-crony with a television company.",
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          "ref": "2001, Royal Town Planning Institute, Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment:",
          "text": "Falconer is basically a good egg but his reputation as a \"Tony crony\" and his involvement with the Millennium Dome do him no favours.",
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          "ref": "2007, Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years:",
          "text": "She said the Tony crony thing was a real problem.",
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        "An ingratiating political associate of the former British prime minister Tony Blair."
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        "(British, informal, humorous, derogatory) An ingratiating political associate of the former British prime minister Tony Blair."
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          "text": "Falconer is basically a good egg but his reputation as a \"Tony crony\" and his involvement with the Millennium Dome do him no favours.",
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