David Blunkett

UK Children's welfare becoming 'national emergency', health experts warn

A letter to the Observer calls for an urgent review of the long-term impact of lockdowns and school closures on a generation

Michael Savage and Sonia Sodha

16, Jan, 2021 @7:00 PM

Why do so many home secretaries fall out with their officials?

Something about the Home Office seems to breed tension, as many of Priti Patel’s forerunners also found

Patrick Wintour

20, Nov, 2020 @6:25 PM

Ministerial code: five who did resign over breach accusations

Boris Johnson has backed Priti Patel – but in the past there have been notable departures

Sarah Marsh

20, Nov, 2020 @3:57 PM

Labour MPs face fresh claims of antisemitic and anti-LGBT remarks

Both Daniel Carden and Conor McGinn have rejected BuzzFeed’s reports

Nadeem Badshah

09, Nov, 2019 @2:07 PM

It’s not his enemies but his erstwhile friends who are alarming Mr Corbyn | Andrew Rawnsley

The Labour leader’s continued ambiguity over Brexit is breeding discontent even among his most loyal supporters

Andrew Rawnsley

02, Jun, 2019 @7:00 AM

David Blunkett: Jeremy Corbyn should sack his top aides

The former home secretary calls on trades unions and Momentum to exert pressure on the Labour leader

Toby Helm Observer political editor

01, Jun, 2019 @8:30 PM

Cutting tuition fees won’t help poorer students – reduce interest rates instead | David Blunkett

The government’s university funding review must think again about interest rates, says former education secretary David Blunkett

David Blunkett

18, Jan, 2019 @2:02 PM

‘Mental anguish’ and wider problems with IPP sentences | Letters

Letters: Nicolas Sanderson, who was involved in the creation of the sentence, corrects a common mistake. Mark Day says the government should eradicate this stain on our justice system

Letters

11, Jan, 2019 @4:50 PM

The Guardian view on outsourcing torture: a shaming story | Editorial

Editorial: The committee chaired by Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, met with evasion and obstruction but has established that the UK security services pretended not to know of the US use of torture

Editorial

01, Jul, 2018 @5:20 PM

Criticism mounts over UK's post-9/11 role in torture and rendition

ISC chair Dominic Grieve says the actions of former ministers and spy chiefs were ‘inexcusable’

Ian Cobain and Ewen MacAskill

28, Jun, 2018 @6:37 PM

Assange, Farage, Cummings – isn’t it too soon for the Cumberbatch treatment? | Martha Gill

These days no time has to pass before a political event becomes a docudrama featuring those cheekbones, says the freelance political journalist Martha Gill

Martha Gill

18, May, 2018 @8:28 AM