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David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, PC (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2015, and...

ministers, David Blunkett and Beverley Hughes, after both were forced to resign. At the time of the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, David Davis was...

highlighted by the report into the Soham murders, the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, called for Westwood's suspension, but the Humberside police authority...

On 15 December 2004, in the reshuffle following the resignation of David Blunkett, he replaced Ruth Kelly as a Cabinet Office Minister. Following Labour's...

she had an affair with David Blunkett, Home Secretary in Tony Blair's ministry. Quinn's three-year affair with David Blunkett ended acrimoniously in mid-2004...

Following the publication of the report, the Labour education secretary David Blunkett proposed the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, on 26 November...

for Best Actor. He received an additional nomination for his role as David Blunkett in the drama A Very Social Secretary (2005), for which he was also nominated...

had 'legislated to prevent them'. Following the first resignation of David Blunkett on 15 December 2004, Clarke was appointed Home Secretary, one of the...

"entitlement cards", was initially revived by the Home Secretary at the time, David Blunkett, following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, but was reportedly...

Whitehouse resigned in the same year under pressure from the Home Secretary, David Blunkett. His successor publicly apologised to Ashley's family in 2003. Ashley's...

May 2005. He was then special adviser to Work and Pensions Secretary, David Blunkett, from May to November 2005, before working as a special adviser to Prime...

election, Benn was appointed a special adviser to Education Secretary David Blunkett before winning a by-election in Leeds Central in 1999. Under Tony Blair...

personnel and cost nearly £3 million. On 24 November 2002, Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered that Roy Whiting must serve a minimum of 50 years in prison...

with two others, received fifty-year tariffs imposed by Home Secretary David Blunkett in 2002. Daniel Charles Handley (27 April 1985 – 2 October 1994) was...

sympathies; during the 1980s, when Sheffield City Council was led by David Blunkett, the area gained the epithet the "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire"...

his life". BBC News. 21 January 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2010. Brown, David (22 January 2010). "I could have stopped Blair on Iraq, Jack Straw admits"...

spend more time teaching literacy and numeracy. The Secretary of State, David Blunkett, later announced another overhaul of the National Curriculum, particularly...

while in prison that he would never be released, and Home Secretary David Blunkett repeatedly blocked efforts to secure Roberts' release or transfer to...

for the Labour Party. Other newcomers included future Cabinet members David Blunkett and John Redwood, future Shadow Cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe, and...

Employment In office 2 May 1997 – 11 June 1997 Leader John Major Preceded by David Blunkett Succeeded by Stephen Dorrell Secretary of State for Education and Employment[a]...