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Article: THE IoS PROFILE David Blunkett: Tough love As the most authoritarian home secretary Labour has produced, he has pinned his career on tackling undesirable behaviour, be it drug abuse, binge drinking or crime. But as his private life becomes public, he is being accused of hypocrisy. Politicians have closed ranks around him, but his hope of further promotion must be over
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2004
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No one could say that David Blunkett has ever been shy of
publicity - neither this week, nor at any time since he was a student
with his mind on a career in politics.
Last Tuesday's Queen's Speech was in a large measure David
Blunkett's speech, with the Home Secretary's proposals for combating
drug abuse, alcoholism, terrorism, organised crime and other forms of
criminal or anti-social behaviour making up its central theme. No
fewer than 10 Bills trailed in the speech - nearly one-third of the
total - were Blunkett's babies, and he was everywhere, vigorously
taking on paternal responsibility for them.
Yet all week there has been a curious disjuncture between the
things that David Blunkett ...