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
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Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.
Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.
The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.
The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.
Tony asked me to stay. It could only have damaged the Prime Minister if I had stayed on.
We all accept that there is a compelling need for more effective powers to exclude and remove suspected terrorists from our country,
There is always an effort to link the public and the private.
What we are proposing are some sensible additional security measures.
There has been a real change, we've done a good job in the last two years on intelligence. There are 2,700 who will not be here who are often the ringleaders,
We rightly pride ourselves on the safe haven we offer to those genuinely fleeing terror. But our moral obligation and love of freedom does not extend to offering hospitality to terrorists.
We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards
I personally guarantee that now that bear wouldn't get past Dover without being shot.
And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.