Charlie Rose with Frederik Balfour; Colin Soloway; Perry M. Smith; David Sanger; David Blunkett (April 2, 2003)
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
ONCE A home for senior British politicians, including former home secretary David Blunkett, 62 South Eaton Place in London’s plush Belgravia district has close-circuit television, panic buttons and bullet-proof windows.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Squatters yesterday invaded the former grace-and-favour home where David Blunkett carried out his secret affair with a married lover.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Squatters who target empty multimillion pound houses in prestigious areas around central London have moved into David Blunkett's former grace and favour mansion.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... London, may not be there long enough for that. The house, which has not been occupied since David Blunkett moved out more than three years ago, has six bedrooms, three receptions, two bathrooms, two kitchens and an outside terrace. The Home Office has been trying for more than a year to sell the 4,522 sq ft property, which has an estimated asking price of £4m. But despite its...
The anger of a Quiet Man (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... Mr Neather worked as a speechwriter for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett. Well despite the government claims that immigration is now under control and that a points system is in place the following gems have come to light. Telegraph . The proportion of the population that is foreign-born has almost doubled in the past two decades to 11 per cent,...
EZ Article Bank (Free subscription) | yesterday
The government needs to do more to provide consumers on low incomes with access to cheap loans, it was has been suggested. Writing for the Guardian's society section, ex-work and pensions secretary David Blunkett and Kate Green, chief executive for the Child Poverty Action Group called on Labour to work together with the private sector to [...]
Boulton (Free subscription) | yesterday
BREAKING NEWS: Rory Bremner is getting better at doing David Cameron. That's certainly Adam Boulton's view after he and I went to a lunch in the Commons at which Rory was guest speaker. And on top form! But, answering questions from political journalists, he admitted he has found Cameron difficult. "The thing about Cameron is he does a much better Blair than I do," he said. "I...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Labour ministers are assessed for their performance as head of department David Blunkett 1997-2001 He's now best known both for his Spectator romps and for having written quite the dullest political diaries ever. So it's easy to forget that Blunkett is the Big Daddy of all Labour's education secretaries, the one who came closest to making a real difference. Most of his ideas –...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... of the evidence to this inquiry being conducted by Ming and the other grandees on his committee - David Blunkett, Michael Howard and Sir Malcolm Rifkind - the murkier it gets. Or, as Damian Green put it to me: "Very mysterious!" Indeed.
theRatandMouse (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
And this time, they're extracting maximum metaphorical victory by picking former Home Secretary David Blunkett's one-time grace-and-favour apartment at 62 South Eaton Place. It's been lying empty since Blunkett left three years ago... alarmed, CCTV-monitored, bullet-proof glazed. Somebody apparently...
