Responding to Nicky Morgan’s interview in the Sunday Times, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt MP said:

“It is now confirmed. The architect of David Cameron’s damaging schools policy is gone, but there will be no change of course. Nicky Morgan has confirmed we should expect more of the same: funding for new schools diverted away from areas of need as ideology trumps pragmatism; entry requirements to teaching amongst the lowest in the developed world and more unqualified teachers in the classroom; and a refusal to address the dangerous lack of oversight in our school system that has led to the closure of failing free schools and the chaos we have seen in Birmingham schools.”

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