Interview with Former Education Secretary Lord David Blunkett

Lord Blunkett talks about his time at the University of Huddersfield

DAVID Blunkett, one of Britain’s most prominent politicians of recent decades, has returned to the University of Huddersfield – where he studied for a teaching qualification in the 1970s – in order to receive an Honorary Doctorate.

After receiving the award at one of the University’s summer 2017 graduate ceremonies, Lord Blunkett – who was made a Peer in 2015 after leaving the Commons – said how proud he was of the University for its achievement in gaining a Gold Award in the new Teaching Excellence Framework.

He gave an interview to the University of Huddersfield before the ceremony...