 Former home secretary David Blunkett, who resigned last year amid a scandal linked to his former lover, is not the father of her second son, a spokesman for Blunkett said, confirming a report in the Sun tabloid newspaper Saturday. "The test was undertaken shortly after the birth. This has established that Mr Blunkett is not the child's father," the spokesman for the Labour MP said.
| "The mother now thinks it might have been the guy with the hat." |
"He is pleased that this has been clarified and wishes to make clear that as far as he is concerned, there have never been, despite inaccurate press reports several weeks ago, any legal proceedings in relation to that child," he added. In its report the Sun quoted a source as saying "This is a bombshell that Mr Blunkett is not Lorcan's father". The paper said that Lorcan, born on February 2 to Kimberly Quinn, may also not be the son of Quinn's husband.
| "... and there's some doubt she's the mother." |
Quinn's husband Stephen, publisher of the British edition of Vogue magazine, said from his London home late Friday: "We are making no comment whatsoever." The newborn and his two-year-old brother William are at the centre of a public row between Blunkett, 57, and Quinn, the 44-year-old publisher of The Spectator magazine. |