David Blunkett

David Blunkett is right to bemoan the Tory leadership race but 'democracy is hostage to people’s willingness to participate in it', says reader.

'Democracy is hostage to people’s willingness to participate in it' - YP Letters Letters

'The Conservative leadership campaign, which will eventually end in a new Prime Minister, is, for all but a tiny handful, a spectator sport.'

Leadership race has left us all looking on as mere spectators - David Blunkett Columnists

We can rebuild confidence in our damaged democracy - David Blunkett Columnists

Moving House of Lords to Stoke or York "would be nonsense", Blunkett claims Politics

Kay Mellor's Yorkshire: Earliest memory, favourite places and people she admired People

Week of joy and grief in both football and politics - David Blunkett Columnists

Labour should campaign to reverse Brexit – Yorkshire Post Letters Letters

UK should follow lead of German reunification to level up - David Blunkett Columnists

Why Storm Arwen was a warning over future energy crises – David Blunkett Columnists

Philip Allott scandal exposes legal loophole that betrays victims like Sarah Eve... Columnists

What Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were really like to work with Home

9/11 anniversary: UK misjudged influence and Afghan history after atrocity, conc... Politics

How West misread Afghanistan after 9/11 terror attacks – David Blunkett Columnists

No answer to my ordeal on radio’s Any Questions? – David Blunkett Columnists

Labour has a long way to go after Batley and Spen by-election - David Blunkett Columnists

Why lockdown must now end and freedoms return – David Blunkett Columnists

Keir Starmer and ‘whinging’ Labour handed stark warning after Hartlepool humilia... Politics

Labour must stop ‘whinging’ after Hartlepool by-election body blow – David Blunk... Columnists

High stakes for Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer in local elections – David Blunke... Columnists

How ‘levelling up’ is fuelling wider injustice – David Blunkett Columnists