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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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    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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    for Best Actor. He received an additional nomination for his role as David Blunkett in the drama A Very Social Secretary (2005), for which he was also nominated...
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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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    May 2005. He was then special adviser to Work and Pensions Secretary, David Blunkett, from May to November 2005, before working as a special adviser to Prime...
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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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    election, Benn was appointed a special adviser to Education Secretary David Blunkett before winning a by-election in Leeds Central in 1999. Under Tony Blair...
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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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    "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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