Ten reasons why the second referendum campaign is in disarray

The People’s Vote is bound up with New Labour and talk of a new party. This does nothing to help it among Tory MPs…and much to harm it among Labour ones.

Will Tanner: Labour’s war on free schools would be a direct attack on social mobility

Rayner’s hostility to academies runs against both the interests and preferences of parents and pupils alike.

WATCH: Rayner – “I think that if we end up with a second referendum we will have failed the public.”

Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary tacks her personal view on to a defence of Labour’s corporate position.

Damian Hinds: Labour is wrong to turn its back on academies

Putting teachers and heads in charge has consistently allowed schools and pupils to excel. We must continue to put our trust in them.

Exclusive. New Government of National Unity Cabinet in full.

We have the full list from the New Progressive Democratic Liberal National Coalition Party – including a three-way Northern Ireland jobshare.

Is the Marxist Shadow Chancellor really backing tax cuts for the rich?

The Budget has prompted further disarray in the Labour Party. But they do show a willingness to “compromise with the electorate”.

John Bald: Labour threatens to set our schools back by over a decade

The reality of local authority control of schools was not democratic, but rule by officers and party hacks.

Damian Hinds: Schools policy. Memo to Labour: going backwards isn’t progressive

Rayner’s new proposals would mean that the progress we have seen over the last eight years would be sacrificed – and it is our kids that would pay the price.

Mark Lehain: Rayner says Labour will reject Gove’s school reforms – but what would they establish in their place?

Families and teachers deserve some details on what is being proposed in place of free schools and academies.

Liz Truss: As Labour’s Conference opens, think long and hard about the damage they would wreak on jobs, wages and tax

They want to bring down the system of free enterprise, and replace it with a committee of Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott telling us how we should live our lives.

WATCH: Rayner calls for ‘evidence-based’ stop and search

“Targeting stop-and-search rather than just going randomly around saying ‘I think you look like you might be a gang member.'”

WATCH: When Rayner called Labour’s economic strategy “s**t or bust”, she meant it would be “dramatic”, Corbyn claims

“What she was saying was we’re going to have an investment-led economy,” the Labour leader tells Peston, in an interesting redefinition of Rayner’s phrase.

Matt Smith: Welsh Labour’s two decades in power have left behind a lost generation of state school pupils

This year, Wales produced the lowest A* to C grade GCSE results since 2006, with the GCSE attainment gap between the best and worst performing areas widening.

Jonathan Gullis: We Conservatives should make more of our achievements on education reform

The introduction of a classical liberal education system that has knowledge and rigour at its core means a better future for the next generation.

Hammond and May must not allow Labour to scare them off unpicking the pension triple lock

The Opposition’s promise to extend the policy is opportunistic, expensive, and unjust. The Conservatives must do what is necessary and right.