UK Home Secretary Blunkett Resigns Over Lover&#39;s Nanny Visa
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UK Home Secretary David Blunkett resigned over claims he helped speed up a visa application to his department by his former lover&#39;s Filipina nanny and remarks he made to a biographer about fellow ministers.
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Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain announced Thursday he was to resign to clear his name over a funding row clouding Prime Minister Gordon Brown's governing Labour Party.
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LONDON, DECEMBER 15: Senior British minister David Blunkett resigned on Wednesday, ripping a hole in Prime Minister Tony Blairâs team months before an expected general election.
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The Daily Mail says it has two letters on Home Office note-paper it bills as a &quot;bombshell&quot; in the Blunkett affair. Letters written to his former lover&#39;s nanny Leoncia Casalme show a sudden change of mind over her visa application, the paper claims.
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Charles Clarke has been named as the new home secretary, following David Blunkett's resignation.
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THE revenge of an ex-lover has forced the resignation of British Home Secretary David Blunkett, dealing a blow to Tony Blair less than six months before an expected general election.
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David Blunkett, the former UK home secretary who resigned Dec. 15 amid claims he helped speed up a visa application, acted improperly in giving a first-class rail ticket for use by lawmakers
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Charles Clarke is set to start work as Home Secretary after David Blunkett's shock resignation in a visa row.
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The head of the Child Support Agency has resigned amid widespread criticism of the body's work.
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The Home Secretary has rejected fresh claims that he helped fast-track a visa application for a nanny employed by his former lover. Send us your comments.
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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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LONDON -- One of Britain's most powerful and popular Cabinet secretaries resigned his post yesterday after admitting his office had fast-tracked a visa application for his married lover's nanny.
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LONDON: The British minister under investigation for allegedly fast-tracking a visa for a former lover's nanny was at the centre of a new political storm yesterday over slurs on his government colleagues.
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LONDON: Opposition politicians stepped up the pressure on Britain&#39;s Home Secretary David Blunkett yesterday over accusations he abused his position by speeding up a visa for his ex-lover&#39;s nanny.
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LONDON: Beleaguered British Home Secretary David Blunkett faces damaging new claims he fast-tracked a second visa for his lover&#39;s nanny to visit a sister in Austria.
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Top British government minister David Blunkett resigned on Wednesday over a charge of abuse of office, ripping a hole in Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s
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British Home Secretary David Blunkett has asked for an independent investigation into claims he intervened in a visa application for his ex-lover&#39;s nanny.