The archbishop of Liverpool, Malcolm McMahon, got it right: the Government has broken its manifesto promise on church schools – can we just drop the “faith schools” bit? As he said trenchantly:
“In their general election manifesto the Conservative Party made a commitment to the Catholic community that the unfair rule effectively stopping the opening of new Catholic free schools would be lifted. Today the Government has broken this promise, dropped the pledge they made to our country’s six million Catholics and ignored the tens of thousands of Catholics who campaigned on this issue.”
That’s telling ‘em.
It doesn’t help either, that the Education Secretary, Damian Hinds was so weaselly about the Government’s bad faith. It took about four tries in his BBC interview this morning to get him actually to admit that, yes, “we reflected long and hard on these difficult issues…we have concluded that it right that we continue to have that cap.”
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