Angela Rayner, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education, responding to the news that the Tories have dropped plans for an Education Bill in this parliamentary session, said:

“When it comes to this government’s education policy chaos really does mean chaos. This was supposed to be the new Prime Minister’s flagship domestic policy – an Education Bill paving the way for a new generation of grammar schools. That has been abandoned as a result of the huge pressure Labour has put the Government under.

“The real priority for education are policies that will enable every child to reach their full potential and the investment to make that happen. Only Labour can deliver the education, the schools and the teachers that children and parents are demanding.”