Voyeur mentality cited as British papers make hay out of politician's affair
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LONDON (CP) - He's one of the most high-profile ministers in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet, but now David Blunkett is at the centre of a debate on the privacy rights of politicians over allegations of an affair with a married woman.
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Britain&#39;s homeland security czar, one of the most powerful members of Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government, is embroiled in a political sex scandal with his former mistress that threatens to torpedo his career.
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The blame falls on Home Secretary David Blunkett for exposing his three-year affair with the married publisher of The Spectator, the magazine itself charges in its latest issue.
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David Blunkett&#39;s cabinet career hung in the balance last night after he ordered an independent inquiry into allegations by his former lover, Kimberly Quinn, that he
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But behind the scenes, an Anglo-French row was under way, after a British MEP spilled the beans on the murky past of one of President Chirac's political allies.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: The Tories and their allies in the rightwing media are gloating at the cabinet's inability to handle public politics
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The Sun newspaper says it has had a reporter working undercover in the Commons for months.
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A strology does not come easy to a rational newspaper like The Independent.
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A row over the bugging of a MP has reignited debate about how far the country has gone towards becoming a "Big Brother" surveillance state.
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A bigger boy made me do it Fresh revelations emerged overnight surrounding allegations that police bugged conversations between Labour MP Sadiq Khan and his constituent, Babar Ahmad, in a visiting room at Woodhill prison. The former Thames Valley police officer at the centre of the case has said that the surveillance was carried out at the request of the Metropolitan police, who had put him under "significant pressure" to do so.â¦
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Newspapers have backed the MP embroiled in a political storm sparked by his views on the problems posed by Muslim women wearing a veil.
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A prominent politician and journalist embroiled in a recent controversy over the death of a British hostage in Iraq has been fired from senior posts in the Conservative Party because of a sex scandal, the party said Saturday.
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The avalanche of bad publicity that buried David Blunkett&#39;s career was triggered more than four months ago, with the Sunday newspaper revelation that the home secretary was having an affair.
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For nearly 10 years, Alastair Campbell was Tony Blair's right hand man. No wonder the imminent publication of his diaries is creating anxiety among British politicos
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LONDON -- In a parting salvo at media that alternately defined and savaged his administration, British Prime Minister Tony Blair accused journalists yesterday of abandoning accuracy and objectivity in favor of scandal and controversy on a scale which "literally overwhelms" public discourse.
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Britain's top law enforcement official is mired in a messy scandal with all the ingredients of a big political headache &#151; a married lover, a reported paternity dispute and now accusations he helped secure a speedy visa for his former lover's Filipina nanny.
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A handy Q&amp;A on the scandal currently embroiling Britain's Prime Minister, from lords to loans to Labour