Suella Fernandes is the chair of the European Research Group, the Conservative backbench caucus seeking the hardest of Brexits. Nick Clegg is, well, Nick Clegg, possibly Britain’s most European politician, in terms of temperament and outlook, not to mention a man whose experience co-operating with the Conservative Party hasn’t been the happiest. You wouldn’t expect them to have much in common. You’d be wrong.
Today, Clegg and Fernandes, joined by Labour’s Stephen Kinnock, will publish the findings of the Commission on Inequality in Education, a year-long cross-party effort to identify and close the gap in educational outcomes between children from poor homes and children from rich homes.
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