This promised to be an awkward encounter. I was invited on to Newsnight on Tuesday to discuss the education bill in the Queen’s Speech and my opponent was to be Ed Balls.
For me, this was a bit like an Albanian dissident being asked to participate in a studio discussion with Enver Hoxa.
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