David Cameron tells the Commons he’s pressing on with his plans,but opposition from Conservatives at all levels is widespreadAnother of the government’s crazy, bad and ill-prepared schemes is in deep wretchedness. Lets hear it for Jeremy Corbyn who correctly spotted at prime ministers questions this morning that raising the plan for forced academisation of all primaries and secondaries in England by 2022 was likely to lead to an embarrassed silence on the benches behind David Cameron.
The prime minister vainly repeated well-refuted claims that evidence shows academisation means better schools, or in doing so failed to address the huge point: why try to fix something that many even of his party’s rank and file don’t contemplate is broken? He might insist there’s no going back,but it’s not what the mood music is saying.
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Source: theguardian.com