I thought I had seen it all from this government. But this week in the House of Commons we have reached a new and deeply alarming moment, not just for education policy but for the functioning of parliamentary democracy itself.
Labour won two votes in the Commons on Wednesday, including my motion against the latest rise in tuition fees. This rise – of up to £1,000 extra for an undergraduate course – was engineered through statutory instruments, rather than primary legislation.
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