Fury Over Blunkett's Pounds 30,000 Royalties Offer to His Local Mps

Mail on Sunday › October 15, 2006

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A GOVERNMENT Minister stormed out of a secret meeting with David Blunkett after the former Home Secretary offered to give Pounds 30,000 of the profits of his memoirs to his neighbouring Labour constituencies in Sheffield.

Sports Minister Richard Caborn left the room accusing him of betraying the Labour Party and declaring: 'I want nothing to do with this.' Mr Blunkett's book, The Blunkett Tapes, which lays bare the tensions in the Cabinet, has caused deep anger in sections of the Labour Party.

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Fury Over Blunkett's Pounds 30,000 Royalties Offer to His Local Mps

He called his four fellow Sheffield Labour MPs to a secret meeting in Manchester three ...

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