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30 March 2017updated 01 Aug 2021 7:25am

David Blunkett compares Labour membership to failed revolution “from Ukraine to Egypt”

The Labour peer and former home secretary says new members need a “meaningful political education”, and accuses unions of neglecting their “historic balance”.

By Anoosh Chakelian

As told to Anoosh Chakelian.

There are three sorts of opposition. There’s the civil society opposition, with people campaigning in their own specific areas, people who’ve got an interest group or are delivering social enterprise or a charity. I don’t think we should underestimate that because we’re going to have to hang on to it as part of the renewal of civil society.

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