Labour Party
He was the Chair of Sheffield District Labour Party from 1993 to 2009, resigning the position in order to fight the Sheffield Central at the 2010 general election, after long-serving MP Richard Caborn announced he would be standing down. He has been a longstanding opponent of tuition fees. Blomfield became the Chair of Labour for Democracy, or Labour4Democracy, on 4 December 2012. The internal party group was launched to promote plurality in the Labour Party, and increase co-operation with other political parties in building a "progressive consensus".
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