Gordon Brown - As Chancellor accused critics of his PFI schemes of 'ideological dogma' news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/…
Tony Blair – Branded people critical of increased private sector involvement in the NHS as "wreckers" telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/13…
Liam Byrne – As immigration minister in 2007 said he wanted to create a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/16…
David Blunkett - As Home Secretary dismissed the idea of "institutional racism" theguardian.com/politics/2003/…
David Blunkett – Slammed the BBC for a 'stunt' after it ran an undercover investigation that showed a serving police officer saying he wanted to 'eradicate' Asians from Britain and posing in a KKK hood independent.co.uk/news/media/blu…
Tony Blair – Tried to put a maximum time-limit on how long someone could claim disability benefits for independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Tony Blair – Wanted to scrap the 'disability premium' top-up on working age benefits, which would have cost 1 million disabled people over £23 a week telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/14…
Tony Blair – In 2003 the BBC accused Downing Street of using "intimidation" to try and force more sympathetic coverage of the Iraq War nzherald.co.nz/world/news/art…
Jack Straw – Weakened arms export rules to assist the sale of fighter jets to the Israeli military, shortly after a 2002 offensive against Palestinians which human rights groups said included war crimes news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi…
Mike O'Brien – As immigration minister said 'abusive asylum seekers' who were actually 'economic migrants' should be blamed for public hostility to refugees news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/245747…
Mike O'Brien - As a minister was accused of using an antisemitic dogswhistle against two Jewish MPs independent.co.uk/voices/comment…
Gordon Brown – Unveiled "lie-detector" tests for benefit claimants theguardian.com/politics/2008/… which were no more effective in trials than flipping a coin theguardian.com/news/datablog/…
John Hutton – As Work and Pensions Secretary unveiled plans to station DWP staff in NHS GP surgeries as part of a crackdown on doctors writing sick notes, under the slogan 'work is good for you' telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/15…
Tony Blair – Launched the Prevent programme, which involved mass-surveillance of Muslims not suspected of committing any crime theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/16… and was judged by MPs to have backfired by alienating the Muslim community news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/859386…
Gordon Brown - Declared that "the days of Britain having to apologise for its colonial history are over" while on a visit to east Africa and said the British Empire should in fact be celebrated dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…
David Blunkett – As Education Secretary scrapped student maintenance grants and replaced them with loans theguardian.com/education/2002… full timeline telegraph.co.uk/education/educ…
David Blunkett - Urged Tony Blair to bomb the Al-Jazeera television station off the air during the invasion of Iraq, a breach of international law, arguing that the channel shouldn't be able to 'continue being able to propagandise against' the attack mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b…
David Blunkett - Ordered the prisons service to "machine-gun" rioting prisoners and said he did not care about deaths, according to the then head of HM Prisons Service (Blunkett disputes the account and says he 'frankly' told him to 'get on with the job') news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi…
Jacqui Smith - As Home Secretary justified drug criminalisation by telling an advisor 'you cannot compare the harms of an illegal activity with a legal one’ theguardian.com/uk/2010/dec/06…
John Reid - As Home Secretary launched a crackdown on whistleblowers, proposing a bill to remove ‘duress of circumstances’ as a defence for breaking the Official Secrets Act telegraph.co.uk/news/1533281/R…
Peter Mandelson - Resigned as business secretary after taking a secret £373,000 loan to buy a house in London from millionaire cabinet colleague Geoffrey Robinson, whose businesses were under investigation by Mandelson's department theguardian.com/century/1990-1…
David Blunkett - As Home Secretary oversaw a policy of unlawfully racially discriminating against Romani people travelling to the UK, according to the UK's highest court news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi…
Jack Straw - As foreign secretary was responsible for GCHQ when it illegally spied on members of the UN security council as part of a campaign to encourage them to vote to approve the Iraq war theguardian.com/politics/2004/…
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