David Blunkett
David Blunkett
David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, PCis best known as a British politician and more recently as an academic, having represented the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency for 28 years through to 7 May 2015 when he stepped down at the general election. Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 June 1947
Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.
So good on them. And whether it is a year or two years, it actually will be a sensible process of combining the talents that we have.
That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.
We didn't consider closing Heathrow Airport because those who are threatening us would have been the victors,
Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.
The people we are dealing with are sophisticated, well organized and entirely ruthless, but they are also in a position to exploit the very freedoms we seek to protect.
What I am clear about is that I have made a mistake, ... I thought there was going to be increasing damage done to the government by me.
There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.