Blair Supporter Resigns (Home Secretary David Blunkett)

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http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=101213®ion=3

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost one of his key supporters with the resignation of controversial Home Secretary David Blunkett.

Mr Blunkett quit his cabinet post with immediate effect after admitting his office had fast-tracked a visa application for his ex-lover's Filipina nanny.

The country’s top law enforcer, blind from birth, insisted he hadn’t been told officials were writing to the immigration department over the case of nanny Leoncia Casalme.

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Mr Blunkett always denied he’d intervened to speed up the application, but conceded the inquiry had discovered a series of e-mails about the visa application between his office and immigration officials

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