Ex-Met police chief's claim: 'Liar Blunkett tried to stab me in the back'

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Ex-Met police chief's claim: 'Liar Blunkett tried to stab me in the back'

Lord Stevens says he was told: 'Be wary of David Blunkett. Never go and see him alone. Always take a witness'
By Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 11 September 2005


"Be wary of him", Lord Stevens says he was told about David Blunkett. "Never go and see him alone. Always take a witness."

The former home secretary may be wondering today if he should not have been a little more wary of the genial giant who, as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, was his most senior policeman.

Lord Stevens may not have taken a witness to his meetings with his boss but he certainly seems to have kept careful notes for his vivid memoir, Not for the Faint-Hearted. The result, according to the first extract published in today's News of the World, is a book that includes a deeply unflattering portrait of Mr Blunkett as a deceitful bully.

Their relationship began to sour in the wake of the 9/11 attacks when the then Home Secretary questioned the police's ability to deal with the terrorist threat. Lord Stevens claims that Mr Blunkett lost little time in briefing against him when he stood up to him in front of other Cabinet ministers.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article311847.ece

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1. Hopefully,

this is being published to help convince people not to re-employ him as Home Secretary

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2. It's in the News of the World

It's being published to sell newspapers. With one or two papers, you might wonder if they published to keep unsuitable people from an important office, but with Murdoch, you know it's money. Always.

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3. The guy is obviously a class act if he sees his memoirs

... as appropriate material for The News of The Screws

Not The Times.

Not The Torygraph

Not even the Sunday Express.

The News of The Screws.

The Sailors' Bible.

The Chava's Newsletter.

Famous for its Soft Core Porn and Brainless Content for Over A Century.

Quality team. Are all our top rozzers this sophisticated?

The Skin

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4. the smart money's on Stevens. The fiasco of the Ian Huntley

murder of the two schoolgirls Holly and Jessica in August 2003 is squarely down to Blunkett's fault.