Scope and Contents Correspondence with Labour MPs concerning education policy and Blunkett's role as Shadow Education Secretary. Includes: letters of congratulations on Blunkett's appointment as Shadow Secretary of State for Education; letters from Blunkett to former members of his Shadow Health team thanking them for their hard work; letter to Gordon Brown regarding links between education and economic policy; correspondence with Roy Hattersley and others regarding their disagreement over the use of league...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Labour MPs mainly concerning education policy and Blunkett's role as Shadow Education Secretary. Includes correspondence and papers relating to: leaks to the press of details of confidential PLP meetings; Labour policy towards VAT on school fees; an article in the Independent regarding Labour's early years policy and in particular the role of private nurseries; possible policy of a graduate tax; national campaign on the government's cuts to education budgets; Clause IV...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Labour MPs mainly concerning the development of Labour's education and employment policies in the run up to the 1997 general election. Includes correspondence concerning Harriet Harman's decision to send her son to a grant maintained grammar school, including handwritten note from Harman to Blunkett; correspondence with Margaret Hodge and others on drafting Labour's Early Years' policy; letters to Michael Meacher and others regarding drafting the employment policy section...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Labour MPs mainly concerning the development of Labour's education and employment policies in the run up to the 1997 general election. Includes correspondence with: Peter Hain and others regarding concerns on Labour's policy relating to job insecurity in the public sector; Clive Betts concerning questions arising from a Education Labour Group meeting he attended on behalf of the shadow education team; Brain Davies, Peter Kilfoyle and Estelle Morris concerning tiering...