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This is a short extract from a Times article by Martin Narey who was Permanent Secretary at the Home Office and Director-General of the Prison Service when Blunkett was Home Secretary. There was a riot at Lincoln Prison in October 2002 and Blunkett called Martin Narey and on the phone,
"He shrieked at me that he didn’t care about lives, told me to call in the Army and “machine-gun” the prisoners. He then ordered me to take the prison back immediately. I refused. David hung up."
But Blunkett denies this, from the BBC page,
"But the ex-minister has stood by his account of the Lincoln prison riot and denied Mr Narey's account.
A spokesman for Mr Blunkett told the newspaper: "The diary records precisely what happened.
"He did order the retaking of the prison. He did not say anything about machine guns. Quite apart from anything else, they do not carry machine guns in the Prison Service."
No they don't, Narey says he was screaming about the army.
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