#davidblunkett — Public Fediverse posts
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Five former education secretaries urge Labour MPs to back government’s Send reforms in open letter https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/feb/20/former-education-secretaries-urge-labour-mps-government-send-reform #SpecialEducationalNeeds #Politics #Labour #DavidBlunkett #RuthKelly #AlanJohnson #Schools #EducationPolicy #Education #UkNews
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Labour government discussed Tanzania asylum camp plan in 2004, files show https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/31/labour-government-2004-tanzania-asylum-camp-plan-national-archives-files #Immigrationandasylum #NationalArchives #DavidBlunkett #HilaryBenn #HomeOffice #JackStraw #Tanzania #Refugees #England #UKnews #Africa #Labour
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Ex-ministers press #Sunak on ‘persecution’ of #carers who broke earnings rules
#DavidBlunkett and #AlanJohnson join #IainDuncanSmith in dismay at #DWP’s treatment of benefit recipients’ minor mistakes
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/carers-persecution-ex-ministers-dwp
#ToryPoliciesInAction #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #NastyParty -
Vile from #DavidBlunkett, viler to watch #BBC panel openly cheering it. Even defends #MiriamCates' despicable, hateful speech as "perfectly reasonable"!
I'd forgotten just how reactionary he and so many New Labour figures were, including in his case trying to keep #Section28. What on earth is he doing advising #Labour now? Surely #Starmer didn't take advice from him on what line to take on #Section35 given his history?