My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that as we grow older, our need for healthcare also grows. It is also true that those who… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
