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16 September 2016updated 09 Sep 2021 8:58am

Grammar schools don’t work – and they’re dead on arrival in the House of Lords

With no mandate from the people for this change, they'll be voted down, vows Labour peer Mike Watson. 

By Mike Watson

September’s parliamentary sitting has delivered a political earthquake, with the potential to change the face of the country for many years to come.

The revelation that Theresa May intends to turn the education clock back to a time before many of her MPs were born may have emerged in almost comical circumstances. But there is nothing remotely amusing about the content of her plans.

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