Sandie Seward
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Start as you mean to continue!A reader's letter to the same paper quotes an extract from Stephen Pollard's biography of David Blunkett ...
After winning the 2001 election, Labour's senior ministers went to Buckingham Palace to receive their seals of office. One of those present said "We were dead on our feet after campaigning for three weeks ... John Prescott knelt, recited his oath and walked away leaving the Queen still holding his seals of office. Jack Straw mangled his oath ... then steered blind David Blunkett towards the Queen.
Blunkett ended up facing not the Queen but a statue of George IV, to which he addressed his oath.
At the end of the shambolic series of events, the Queen said "I hope you run the country better than you have managed over the last 15 minutes!" 
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