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Status anxiety

Do people really hate free schools – or do they just hate me?

In the end, I'm convinced, even my negative charisma can't doom this good cause

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

This isn’t a headline I was expecting to read: ‘Free schools could be a bigger negative for the Tories than Ed Miliband is for Labour.’ Given that Miliband’s net satisfaction ratings are minus 39, that was quite a shock. Do the people who disapprove of free schools really outweigh the people who approve of them by a bigger margin than that?

Well, no, they don’t, obviously.

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