Identity fraud unit will lack the right tools
Published: FT Letters, 26 October 2010 Sir, The Government has just announced that it intends to set up a cross-departmental identity fraud unit, targeting what it rightly describes as a growing...
View ArticleCambrian Society Lecture
Part of a series of four lectures covering Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England; in which Mr Blunkett discusses Englishness, citizenship and identity and the implications of current and past political...
View ArticleTime to set the White Rose county free to decide its own destiny
Published: Yorkshire Post, 29 October 2010 This week in the House of Commons, I mischievously asked the Prime Minister David Cameron if, given the coalition Government’s total lack of respect for the...
View ArticleVoice recognition
Published: Telegraph Letters, 7 November 2010 Sir, For those, like me, who are addicted to Radio 4 and unable to resist switching on their set at 8.45am on a Sunday, there is the pleasure of the...
View ArticleThe burden of striking a balance
Published: The House Magazine, 8 November 2010 Having agonised over the legal and moral niceties of terrorist control orders himself, David Blunkett is not about to decry the efforts of the current...
View ArticleThe future for English football after failed bid
Published: Times Letters, 4 December 2010 Sir, Is it time for the FA to reinstate Lord Triesman? Rt Hon DAVID BLUNKETT MP (Lab, Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
View ArticleClegg risks taking liberties with our hard-won security
Published: Yorkshire Post, 13 January 2011 The Government is due to announce its decision on alterations to, or the abolition of, control orders. According to Nick Clegg, he and his Liberal Democrat...
View ArticleFamiliar policy ideas would curtail growth
Published: FT Letters, 17 January 2011 Sir, It is fashionable for politicians to avoid commenting on decisions of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee in relation to interest rates. However,...
View ArticleSpeech on Second Reading of the Education Bill
Source: House of Commons, Official Report, 8 February 2011 6.08 pm Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) (Lab): I say to the Secretary of State (Michael Gove) that on reflection...
View ArticleHousing benefit should be used to help people buy their own homes, says David...
David Blunkett, a former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, issued a call for radical welfare reforms when he delivered the Abraham Lincoln lecture for the Centre for Social Justice. Mr Blunkett...
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