“Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long…” — Michael Gove

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

Too many people go to university.