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
No one is going macho, no one's trying to do this for the sake of promoting some sort of vitriolic or anti-human rights agenda,
None of this is intended to stifle free speech, dialogue or debate, ... Fair comment is not at risk ... Only the incitement to hate.
Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes.
I believe that, if the parole board decide it's necessary, such offenders should stay behind bars for the whole of their sentence and then be closely supervised for years after their release.
I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.
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.
Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.
Sir John was an excellent Commissioner and I was proud he invited me to speak at a number of his farewells.
We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity.
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.
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.
respecting our fundamental civil liberties and ensuring that they are not exploited.