Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on Oxford University’s Professor Louise Richardson’s comments on universities opening schools, said:

“This is an embarrassing rebuke for Theresa May whose education policies are falling apart at the seams.

“Her plans for new grammar schools have been universally panned by experts, and now the Vice Chancellor of the world’s best university casts doubt on the suitability of universities opening schools.

“The Prime Minister urgently needs to get back to the drawing board as its clear she is quickly running out of any support for her divisive education policies.”