British - Politician | June 6, 1947 -
Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.
David Blunkett
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Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
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Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
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How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.
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Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.
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Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.
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I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.
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History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
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My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.
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For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
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Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.
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What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.
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