The news that Hazel Blears has had a computer with sensitive material on it stolen from her constituency office is acutely embarrassing for the government, coming as it does on the same day as Gordon Brown’s big speech on security and liberty. It is also further grist to David Davis’s mill.
Blears has done sterling work at the DCLG. But if the information on the computer was improperly stored, then her position is going to be rather precarious.

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