Blunkett silent on DNA test
Ms Quinn and her Irish husband, Stephen, released a statement on Saturday denouncing Mr Blunkett’s decision to discuss in public the DNA test which proved he was not the father of her month-old son.
Some newspapers quoted unnamed friends of the couple questioning his assertion that he had never claimed to be baby Lorcan’s father, and suggesting that they want him to make a public apology.
Mr Blunkett yesterday issued a statement repeating his assurance that he had not initiated legal action over Lorcan and accepting that the issue was now entirely the Quinns’ affair.
“Mr Blunkett has no intention of engaging in an unseemly public debate,” the statement said.
A spokesman for Mr Blunkett said the former cabinet minister had no further comment to make.
Mr Blunkett, 57, resigned as Home Secretary last December in the wake of a series of revelations relating to his three-year affair with Ms Quinn, the 44-year-old publisher of The Spectator.
He is pursuing legal action to gain access to her two-year-old son, William, understood to be his child.
He sparked the Quinns’ anger by issuing a statement on Saturday confirming a story in The Sun that DNA tests had proved he was not Lorcan’s father.
Millionaire publisher Mr Quinn issued a statement saying: “We are angry that Mr Blunkett has yet again chosen to talk to the press about matters concerning our family.
“The results of the DNA tests referred to by Mr Blunkett have been known for over two weeks.”
