David Blunkett
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119 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
David Blunkett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of people have argued a position of strength to a conurbation that was already going in the right direction.
He should take credit rather than trying to turn it on its head that he's built on that and he's maintained momentum.
Certainly, he should take credit for bus re-regulation.
He's taken strong decisions in other areas, and our police force was put into...
special measures it was performing really really badly and he is in his police and crime commissioner role brought in a chief constable that was very much a traditional police officer and believed the job of the police was to catch criminals was actually was a strong decision.
We bought 19 million items of PPE, completely separate to the national system.
We ran a mutual aid system across health and social care for PPEs.
There's loads of things that we've done purely off our own back.
And yeah, it is a bit... But obviously we're in a situation where the money's dried up.
We've no money for the trams, we've no money for the local government, so we have to ask for funding.
In summary, at no point today were we offered enough to protect the poorest people in our communities through the punishing reality of the winter to come.
Yeah, yeah.
There is a video clip somewhere of me showing him on my phone what government had just announced.
Try and pick off individual councils.
There was a palpable anger in that we believed, and evidence later is that Greater Manchester was being, first of all, treated in an unfair way, but also by a government that was, wherever it was doing lockdown, was not really looking after the best interests of the people we represented.
Clearly...
He, with the backing of leaders, really was fighting against that, had taken on Boris Johnson in number 10 over what he was doing.
This is no way to run the country in a national crisis.
It isn't.
This is not right.
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