The blind former home secretary told how he had been getting on a District Line train with his guide dog, Barley, when he suddenly “disappeared” on the rush hour platform.
Writing in The Sun on Sunday, Lord Blunkett said: “As I took a step to get onto the tube train I suddenly felt both my feet disappearing down the gap.
“In an instant my body had been propelled forward into the carriage and I was face down on the floor. My legs had somehow been scraped out of the gap and into the carriage.”
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