The mandatory ingredients for a ratings winner were all there: sex, money, betrayal, triumph over adversity, politics, passion — and paternity suits. Last week, the real-life drama starring 58-year-old David Blunkett, the British Work and Pensions Secretary, reached a climax fit for a daytime soap opera. Last December, Blunkett was forced to resign as Home Secretary when his office granted official favors to his lover. Last week, he had to do it again, after press revelations about a breach of guidelines governing the jobs he took after he quit the first time.
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- Cartoon by Peter Brookes for The Times (London)
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