Search results for ‘david blunkett’

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  • 2 May 2011

    World leaders, lawmakers and academics have reacted to the news that Osama bin Laden has been killed. Western leaders have welcomed the news, while groups such as Hamas have condemned the operation.

  • 11 Apr 2011

    Exclusive: A woman deported from Britain to be raped and tortured in Moldova has won damages from the Home Office but the project that took her in has had its funding withdrawn, Channel 4 News learns.

  • 5 Feb 2011

    Multiculturalism in Britain has failed to provide a vision of society in which members of all ethnic groups feel they want to belong, Prime Minister David Cameron tells a Munich security conference.

  • 26 Jan 2011

    Control orders – politically neutralised for now?

    “David Davis not convinced by the Control Orders Lite regime. Ming Campbell is. Welcome to the strange world of coalition politics…” Gary Gibbon blogs on today’s control orders announcement.

  • 5 Jun 2009

    It was Mandelson who Balls it up for Ed

    New rumour is that Gordon Brown didn’t actually decide to keep Alistair Darling in place until this morning and that an early morning conversation with Peter Mandelson swung it. That won’t do much for Mandelson/Balls relations, which had been patched up since Lord Mandelson’s return to government. Ed Balls will be feeling frustrated that his…

  • 12 Feb 2009

    Strictly salsa for the politicians' politician

    A gushing waltz; a tear in the eye; and David Blunkett telling me, as I led him to the stage, “This is the blind leading the blind!” Where can I possibly have been other than at the somewhat counter-intuitive Channel 4 Political Awards? We were recording this Saturday’s show, and it has some real pearls.

  • 18 Mar 2014

    Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson agreed to pay a private detective to “monitor” the phones of three aides to the royal family, a court is told.