Private life was main disability

DAVID BLUNKETT’S tangled private life has finally cost him the career he loves, after 34 years as a political battler.

His contest for contact with his ex-lover Kimberley Quinn’s son and the revelations it sparked have put paid to the top flight career of a man once tipped to become Britain’s first blind Prime Minister.

Stern and authoritarian to opponents but warm, generous and steadfastly loyal to friends, he sometimes seems to revel in the division he creates.