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David Blunkett

July 2024

  • Liberal Democrat MP Steve Darling and Jennie<br>Undated handout photo issued by the Liberal Democrats of Steve Darling, the Liberal Democrat MP for Torbay, with his guide dog Jennie, aged four. Issue date: Sunday July 28, 2024. PA Photo. Mr Darling has a genetic eye condition called Stargardt disease, so his "world is a bit like looking through frosted glass", so furry frontbencher, Jennie, assists the MP for Torbay when he's in the Palace of Westminster, and at home in Devon. See PA story POLITICS Darling. Photo credit should read: Liberal Democrats/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Watch out Larry: how Jennie the golden retriever is taking Westminster by storm

    The guide dog of Liberal democrat MP Steve Darling has her own press officer after becoming a social media sensation

June 2024

  • Britain's Forgotten Prisoners.

    The IPP scandal
    Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

    Britain’s Forgotten Prisoners is a devastating documentary about the ‘public protection’ sentences that can amount to whole-of-life terms for relatively minor offences. Film-maker Martin Read explains his seven-year quest for justice

May 2024

  • Prime Minister Tony Blair applauding Education Secretary David Blunkett after his speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, Wednesday 27 September 2000.

    The IPP scandal
    David Blunkett’s mea culpa on indefinite sentences won’t wash

    Letters: Nick Moss says the former home secretary would have known that the resources to support those on IPP sentences didn’t exist. Plus a letter from Gillian Kelly

April 2024

  • David Blunkett

    The IPP scandal
    David Blunkett says devising 99-year prison sentences is his ‘biggest regret’

    Labour former home secretary says imprisonment for public protection sentences have resulted in ‘deeply damaging outcomes’
  • Elderly woman pushing her husband in a wheelchair on a summer evening by the sea

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Ex-ministers press Sunak on ‘persecution’ of carers who broke earnings rules

    David Blunkett and Alan Johnson join Iain Duncan Smith in dismay at DWP’s treatment of benefit recipients’ minor mistakes
  • Children and carers at a Sure Start centre

    Senior Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ Sure Start policy

    Gordon Brown and three former education ministers say New Labour’s acclaimed early-years programme benefited millions

December 2023

  • Peter Newsam in Thornton le Dale, near Pickering, North Yorkshire.

    Sir Peter Newsam obituary

    Pioneering educationist who expanded comprehensive schooling in London and went on to chair the Commission for Racial Equality

November 2023

  • Backs of children sitting in classroom with hands up as teachers stands at white board

    Ofsted’s ‘simplistic judgments’ no longer fit for purpose, schools experts warn

    Former ministers and leaders agree that inspections in England resulting in one-word summaries need to be reviewed

April 2023

  • Labour advert attacking Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives

    Emily Thornberry defends ‘legitimate question’ in Labour’s Sunak attack ad

    Shadow attorney general admits some people ‘very uncomfortable’, while David Blunkett calls ad ‘deeply offensive’

February 2023

  • A mother and young boy walk hand-in-hand towards the front of the dilapidated Strand shopping centre in Bootle.

    ‘The wounds don’t ever heal’: 30 years after James Bulger’s murder, Bootle cannot forget

    In 1993, the UK was held in horror by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger. From the scene of his abduction to the youth justice system, the distress still reverberates

January 2023

  • Lord Blunkett.

    Former education ministers attack plan to reduce vocational qualifications

    Coalition fears DfE may break pledges that only small percentage of qualifications will be replaced by T-levels

September 2022

  • A cell block in Wandsworth Prison. Wandsworth Prison is one of the largest prisons in the UK.

    The Guardian view on indefinite sentences: still blighting thousands of lives

    Editorial: Prisoners detained under the abolished imprisonment for public protection scheme deserve justice

July 2022

  • David Blunkett and Tony Blair in 2003

    Tony Blair was warned repeal of anti-gay section 28 might harm election chances

    Archives reveal David Blunkett voiced concerns about overturning ban on ‘promotion’ of homosexuality

November 2021

  • David Blunkett and Tony Blair in 2003

    Multiculturalism in the UK was rejected long ago

    Letters: Bethan Benwell says it was actually New Labour that first turned its back on the findings of Lord Parekh’s report, while Martin Rose wonders if the phrase British Asian is itself a token of non-acceptance

June 2021

  • collage illustration for long read on the home office

    The Audio Long Read
    Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office – podcast

    Something is badly wrong at the heart of one of Britain’s most important ministries. How did it become so broken?

May 2021

  • Robert Jenrick

    Levelling-up fund influenced by ministers, claims Blunkett

  • illustration/montage for long read about the home office

    The long read
    Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office

April 2021

  • David Cameron and Lex Greensill in Saudi Arabia in January 2020.

    David Cameron to Lord Hogan-Howe: the figures hired by Greensill

  • David Blunkett

    Police and crime bill will create toxic legacy, warns Blunkett

February 2021

  • Justine Greening

    UK government criticised over plans to oversee free speech at universities

    Justine Greening downplays the proposals, while Labour’s David Blunkett accuses the government of playing identity politics
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