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David Blunkett

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1. “And David, we're now getting on to you entering government in cabinet. And I'd love to get a sense of that first week in office. You arrive, your Secretary of State for Education, you've got your new department, and you're suddenly managing this enormous government department. Give us a sense of what it's like and actually also, for me as a former cabinet minister, give us also a sense of what it's like as somebody who's blind to read your initial briefing, to make it through your red boxes, to have your civil servants lay out their vision. I was fortunate because there were only two posts that Tony had pronounced on as definite to individuals. Gordon Brown and myself. So I knew if we won, I'd be in education employment. So I'd been able to think about it to read around it, to do the preparation, which we'd done anyway over the previous two years. Again.”

   2024-06-09 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 78. David Blunkett: Education, policing immigration, and the future of the Labour Party (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source