Responding to press reports on classroom discipline, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt MP said:

“David Cameron and Michael Gove have dropped the ball on discipline by allowing unqualified teachers into our classrooms.

"They had the full support of their coalition partners the Lib Dems, who signed off on allowing unqualified teachers. This has damaged school standards, with ill-discipline blighting learning for hundreds of thousands of pupils across the country.”

He added on the response of Lib Dems to the reported politicisation of Ofsted:

“Lib Dem crocodile tears about the decision to sack Sally Morgan is too little, too late and Lib Dem gesture politics of the worst kind. Nick Clegg and David Laws are failing to prevent attempts by the Tories to politicise Ofsted.”