Blunkett sacrifices career to pursue paternity claim

BRITISH Home Secretary David Blunkett, who resigned last night, said he had sacrificed his political career to pursue his paternity claim to his ex-lover Kimberly Quinn’s son.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair swiftly replaced him with tough-talking Charles Clarke.

Mr Blunkett’s doomed relationship with Ms Quinn proved his inevitable undoing as he had to admit his office had been involved in “fast-tracking” her Filipino nanny Leoncia Casalme’s application for leave to stay in Britain.