Commenting on Nicky Morgan’s speech to NASUWT Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell MP said:

“Like the Chancellor, Nicky Morgan is displaying how out of touch she is with what’s going on in education today. She may try and dismiss the response she’s had from teachers, but she would be foolish to do so. Parents are just as angry with her costly, unnecessary reorganisation of our schools, which has nothing to do with raising standards and everything to do with ideology. Nothing makes parents more annoyed than ideology getting in the way of their children’s education.

"Yet again today, Nicky Morgan has failed to provide a single compelling argument as to why these changes are necessary when the vast majority of schools affected are already highly performing schools. ”