David Blunkett Articles

However Iain Duncan Smith spins it, it seems clear that universal credit is a policy in trouble. What should future Labour ministers learn from this experience? IDS won some respect for thinking deeply about welfare reform while still in opposition. He set up the...

—Stephen Twigg’s recent speech, No School Left Behind, can best be thought of as a kind of schooling ‘births, marriages and deaths’ column. The ‘deaths’ in question are those of the national curriculum as we have known it, and the free schools policy as it has been...

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg’s speech today had a vital job to do. How can we build on the very best aspects of Labour education reform – some of which has been continued by Michael Gove – while also identifying where the Tory version of education reform...

Last week my BBC Radio 5Live documentary on cannabis was broadcast. If you want to listen, you can find it here. I enjoyed the opportunity to review the decision I made in 2008 to reclassify cannabis from a Class C to the more serious Class B drug. David Blunkett, who...