UK News 20-12-2004 Is Third Man Father of Love Child? who: Journalist Simon Hoggart what: Named as "third man" in adultery scandal where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "On the eve of publication of the Budd report into allegations that David Blunkett fast-tracked a visa for her nanny," says The Independent, "it emerged yesterday that Kimberly Quinn was having a second affair at the time of her relationship with the former home secretary." "The pregnant Spectator publisher was secretly romping with the posh Tory magazine`s wine correspondent Simon Hoggart while seeing the former Home Secretary AND sleeping with her millionaire husband Stephen," says yesterday`s News of the World. "And it means, to Blunkett`s horror, that Hoggart, 58, could also be the father of her unborn baby due in February." Meanwhile, Blunkett`s political legacy is in jeopardy as the new home secretary, Charles Clarke, attempts to head off a backbench rebellion over the controversial ID cards bill, says the BBC. "Mr Clarke, who took on the post on Thursday after David Blunkett quit, has rejected calls to `pause` on the bill." "If you were running a family or a business would you have the second reading of the Identity Cards Bill tomorrow or would you pause to reflect and see what you might do about it in the New Year?" pondered Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, quoted in The Daily Mail. "That is the sensible way to go about it but I think this government has got itself so much into tram lines now that it is not behaving sensibly at all." The Guardian says the government has hushed up papers from the office of attorney general Lord Goldsmith which "contain detailed arguments about whether people`s rights would be infringed if they were denied access to public services [as a result of failing to carry an ID card] and closely argued points about the powers of the security services, the police, and other authorities to access details of people`s medical history, finances and personal details." [... more]

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