Biography

David Blunkett was born on June 6, 1947 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was previously married to Ruth Gwynneth Mitchell.

Has been blind since birth.

British Home Secretary (Minister of the the Interior) from 2001 to 2004.

He was the former Secretary of Education in the United Kingdom. He has become a Chairman of Cognita, independent schools group and is on the advisory council for Reform.

[on providing information around AIDS in the early 1990s] We've got to be able to give it in school, but we've got to be able to give it as part of a total picture, so that we don't have a great hoo-ha [like] when Freddie Mercury died, because he had such a bizarre and, in my view, quite unacceptable lifestyle.