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No sacred cows

Must try harder: education is still a vote loser for the Tories

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

The reluctance of the Conservative party to take credit for the success of its education reforms is a source of increasing bewilderment to me. With each passing year, the A-level and GCSE results of free schools and academies provide yet more evidence that liberating state schools from the dead hand of local authority control has had a transformational effect — and 2019 is no exception.

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