Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Justine Greening’s remarks on Peston on Sunday, Shadow Education, said: 

“You cannot build a 21st Century education system with 1950s education policies.

“The Tory argument that reintroducing selection at eleven provides more choice for parents are a nonsense. You do not choose a grammar school, the school chooses you.

“We cannot plan for a modern economy with only providing a high quality academic education for a small minority of children. We should be delivering the best possible outcomes for all children. To not do so risks our country’s future prosperity.”

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Notes to Editors

Justine Greening appeared on Peston on Sunday today and commented: 

“We want to have a 21st Century education system but that means we have to look at the roll Grammars can play."  Justine Greening MP, Peston on Sunday, 9th October 2016