Former home secretary David Blunkett with his ex-lover Kimberly Quinn. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou/PA.
The story of David Blunkett's rise and fall has all the elements of the best musical plots - a boy born with a disability, a forbidden love that crossed political boundaries, a nanny and a little lad of indeterminate parentage.
No wonder Martin Witts, the producer of Blunkett: The Musical, thinks he's on to a hit. He hopes to launch it on the West End in the spring with a "well-known rock star" in the lead. In the meantime, some of the songs will be performed at the Grey Horse Inn at Elvington in Yorkshire tonight. Can the audience expect renditions of Memories (Pretty good, except when it comes to visas), I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No, This Nearly Was Mine and The Perfect Nanny from Mary Poppins?
