Article: The Scurra.(Features)

DAVID Blunkett may have progressed from Education Secretary to Home Secretary but his first meeting with Tony Blair as a Cabinet minister descended into farce, I learn. And it was all down to a massive cock-up by civil servants.

Yesterday, Blunkett's former permanent secretary at the Department of Education and Employment, Sir Michael Bichard, took responsibility for one of the most unpromising debuts by a minister ever.

Blunkett, who takes his guide ...

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