Sunak and Truss are indicative of an educational world divided between private schools and state comprehensives. Grammars can play a role alongside Gove’s reforms in ending that dichotomy.
Undoing the good work of dismantling Labour’s quangos, only to create another one, five times as big, in the Education Endowment Foundation, is plain old-fashioned folly.
In the course of a bizarre two hours before the Liaison Committee, Johnson showed undiminished abilities as a performer.
Lord Frost is right about the dangers of politicians chasing the dragon on regulation. But landlords can’t have it both ways.
It may be that there’s one between more frequent ballots and a higher threshold – a quarter of the Parliamentary Party, say, rather than 15 per cent.
The Secretary of State for Levelling Up reviews the Government’s plans for improving life chances and growth across the North.
It marks a shift from his original vision, which placed a much greater emphasis on individual schools having the freedom to do their own thing.
“The Treasury Finance Ministry view of the world isn’t about structural reform to increase the productive capacity of the economy.”
Last week’s confidence vote leaves the Government right about the Protocol’s operability but less capable of acting to improve it.
For all the Government’s faults and Johnson’s flaws, it’s untrue that Conservative Ministers make no difference – as the sacking of Qari Asim demonstrates.
Declining home ownership amongst the young is an existential threat to the Conservative Party. Yesterday’s announcements were not equal to the task.