What happened to education, education, education, Bridget Phillipson?
The IndependentKemi Badenoch is trying to block the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which receives its second reading today, as part of her opportunist demand for another national inquiry into rape gangs. It distracts from the substance of the schools bill, which is a step in the wrong direction in education policy, and a step away from the academies revolution that has helped raise school standards since the later years of Tony Blair’s government. Combined with Phillipson’s watering-down of Ofsted inspections, making its judgements less clear and therefore privileging parents who have the time and the knowledge to find out which schools in their area really are good and bad, she is taking education policy back to the assumptions that failed pupils and parents before the Blair era. Angela Rayner is hungry for the top job and would run for it on a “trad Labour” platform with Blairite trimmings – she received Tony Blair’s personal blessing at his institute’s pre-Christmas reception.
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