Is it just me, or is David Willetts largely right in the great Tory grammar school row? Ah yes, it would appear to be just me who thinks so. That is if the Conservative blogosphere is anything to go by.
I have just bumped into Mr Willetts, who appears remarkably calm for a man responsible for The Greatest Cameron Sell-out (so far). And so he should be.
This really might be Cameron’s Clause 4 moment. That was Labour’s out-moded expression of its gut instincts which the party accepted had not been implemented when it was last in power and would not be when it next got into government. In that case, why cling to dogma when the world has moved on?
The greatest domestic issue this country faces is the backwards slide of social mobility.
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