The Tories are embarking on an ‘education week’, which means they won’t just be fighting Labour but also the Lib Dems, as the latter like to strike up a fight whenever something involving Michael Gove crops up. Indeed, some Tories suspect the Lib Dems in the Education department as being the source of today’s Independent on Sunday splash about Michael Gove continuing to meddle with education policy – though others point out that he’d probably receive most of them anyway through ministerial ‘write-rounds’ (more on this here).
Today to launch the education week Nicky Morgan appeared on Marr, where she said she was ‘absolutely fighting for the schools’ budget to be protected, on which more later, but the line that’ll get the most pick-up is the one where the Education Secretary insisted that ‘I am very much in charge of the Department of Education’, as it suggests that she is standing up to Gove.
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