Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Look back in anger

In 1997 the Prime Minister made education his priority. Ten years on, his promises lie in tatters: Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth sift through a decade of political failure in which things got worse for poorer children and spin replaced reform

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