Tony Blair was warned about the Labour government’s commitment to scrapping the infamous law banning the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools in the run-up to the 2001 general election, records show.
David Blunkett, then the education secretary, twice wrote to the prime minister to voice his concerns regarding the furore over Section 28.
It followed months of debate over potential changes to same-sex education in schools.
In one letter to Mr Blair, in December 1999, a concerned Mr Blunkett wrote: “We appear to be in real danger of getting on the wrong side of the argument in relation to the family.
