“Theresa May today vows to defy critics of her education revolution because of the debt she owes her grammar school past. In an exclusive article for the Daily Mail, she says she will press ahead with new grammars until every child has the same ‘opportunities that I enjoyed’. The Prime Minister writes that her educational experience made her the woman she is today. Her radical blueprint lifts a long-standing embargo on setting up selective schools.” – Daily Mail
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Analysis:
>Yesterday:
” There is nothing inherently wrong with bringing back grammar schools, as long as there is an almost infinite capacity for recognising selection mistakes: 11 is a vilely young age for the state to decide a child’s fate. Besides, great numbers of supposedly “comprehensive” schools are in effect selective, anyway, and there is no disputing that many of Britain’s postwar intellectual achievements (those which were not attributable to refugees) were the work of one-time grammar school pupils. Leadership of the teaching profession fell to grammar school enemies decades ago, but the schools were hugely effective in the minds of the brightest and the best.” – FT
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Editorial:
>Today: ToryDiary: May should not be bounced into evacuating Parliament
“Theresa May is considering giving ministers a free vote on controversial plans to build a third runway at Heathrow, it emerged last night. In the second major leak in a week, a London Underground passenger filmed a senior Cabinet Office official holding a paper that discussed the plan – which suggests expansion is the Government’s preferred choice.” – Daily Mail
>Today: John Lindberg in Comment: To save Britain’s nuclear future, the Prime Minister must drop Hinkley
“Britain has grown lazy and fat, with business executives more interested in playing golf on a Friday afternoon than exporting products overseas, Liam Fox, the trade secretary, has claimed. In an extraordinary attack on those he represents in government, Dr Fox said that companies were not ready to take advantage of the trade deals he was planning to negotiate. The minister, who is responsible for forging Britain’s place in the world after Brexit, even hinted that companies that did not take advantage of new export opportunities could face sanctions.” – The Times (£)
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Comment:
Editorial:
“If I’ve heard an MP or commentator (like me) say once that “we’re heading for the crunch”, I’ve heard it a thousand times. As with the end of the malign equivalent of the rainbow, the financial collapse of our health service is always just a short distance away. We were saying it 40 years ago and we’re saying it now. And we could be saying it still in 2056. If we cast a problem in terms of an approaching financial crisis then our hand-wringing (and we know it) hints at the answer: more money. The NHS is forever about to run out of money and we’re forever bailing it out at the last minute. We always can, so we always will.” – The Times (£)
“They said it would never last. But one year after Jeremy Corbyn was elected, the leader of the Labour party appears to have thwarted his many adversaries once again. Some senior Labour MPs who resigned from the shadow cabinet en masse in the early summer are braced to go back and serve under Mr Corbyn. One said: “I do not see what the other options are. At the end of the day, we have to fulfil our role, which is providing opposition to the Tory government.”” – FT
Analysis:
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>Yesterday: Video: WATCH: Corbyn vs Smith on Question Time