Charles Clarke

Charles Rodway Clarke ( born September 21, 1950 in London ) is a British Labour Party politician and from December 2004 to May 2006 Home Secretary in the Blair government.

Clarke has been since 1997 a member of the House of Commons and in 2001 was Minister without Portfolio. He was Minister of Education before he was appointed on 15 December 2004, after the resignation of David Blunkett, Secretary of the Interior in 2002.

After a bitter defeat in the British local elections on 25 April 2006 for the Labour party Prime Minister Tony Blair responded with a cabinet reshuffle and dismissed under others, Charles Clarke as Home Secretary. Until then, Clarke was regarded as one of the most powerful ministers of the then Cabinet. But at last came this criticism because he was blamed to have 1,000 foreign criminals not deported after their prison, so some of them in the UK were reoffending. He also drew largely responsible for moving the European Parliament for the far-reaching acceptance of a directive on the retention of communications data.

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