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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...
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    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...
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  • Following the publication of the report, the Labour education secretary David Blunkett proposed the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, on 26 November...
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  • 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...
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  • and Hillsborough In office 7 May 2015 – 4 February 2016 Preceded by David Blunkett Succeeded by Gill Furniss Personal details Born Robert Harry Harpham...
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  • This edition was notable for a confrontation between Jeffrey Archer and David Starkey over the age of homosexual consent. 12 May 1994: Edition following...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    the position of Chief Mouser. In December 2015, former Home Secretary David Blunkett suggested that Larry should be asked to increase his responsibilities...
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    had 'legislated to prevent them'. Following the first resignation of David Blunkett on 15 December 2004, Clarke was appointed Home Secretary, one of the...
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    became deputy leader of Sheffield City Council under David Blunkett in 1986. He succeeded Blunkett as leader in 1987 following the latter's election as...
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    "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...
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    ministers, David Blunkett and Beverley Hughes, after both were forced to resign. At the time of the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, David Davis was...
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    the 1997 general election, Benn was appointed as a special adviser to David Blunkett before winning a by-election in Leeds Central in 1999. Benn served as...
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    Head Theatre. The play, by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans, is based on the David Blunkett paternity case. Ryan had a small role in an episode of Agatha Christie's...
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    for the Labour Party. Other newcomers included future Cabinet members David Blunkett and John Redwood, future Shadow Cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe, and...
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  • 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...
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  • while in prison that he would never be released, and Home Secretary David Blunkett repeatedly blocked efforts to secure Roberts' release or transfer to...
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    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...
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  • Criminal Justice Act 2003 (with effect from 2005) by the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, and abolished in 2012. It was intended to protect the public against...
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  • highlighted by the report into the Soham murders, the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, called for Westwood's suspension, but the Humberside police authority...
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  • spend more time teaching literacy and numeracy. The Secretary of State, David Blunkett, later announced another overhaul of the National Curriculum, particularly...
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  • the General Medical Council (GMC). Two years later, Home Secretary David Blunkett confirmed the judge's whole life tariff, just months before British...
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    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"...
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    sympathies; during the 1980s, when Sheffield City Council was led by David Blunkett, the area gained the epithet the "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire"...
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  • wedge-shaped piece of glass. BBC Press Office (27 October 2003). "Rt Hon David Blunkett MP to appear on Mastermind". BBC Press Office (6 December 2002). "Mastermind...
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    Leppard's Rick Savage, Millie Bright and Peter Stringfellow. Politician David Blunkett, also a Sheffield native, used it when he cooked shepherd's pie on chef...
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  • original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020. David Blunkett (8 January 2003). "Politics | Blunkett denies guns U-turn". BBC News. Archived from the...
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  • composer and musician Jojon, Indonesian comedian, actor (d. 2014) June 6 David Blunkett, British politician Robert Englund, American actor (V, A Nightmare on...
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  • Commonwealth Affairs – Jack Straw Secretary of State for Home Affairs – David Blunkett Secretary of State for Defence – Geoff Hoon Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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