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Education and Inspections Bill

What an interesting speech. Remembering Michael Foot’s words about ratting and reratting, I believe that it generally helps to stay in one corner. The Prime Minister knows that I am a great admirer of his, and I very much welcome what he said in the White Paper. It is unpopular to hold such a position in the Conservative party nowadays, but he and I are born-again Thatcherites. We both believe that state schools should be fundamentally independent. I hope that he will forgive me, but I am an impoverished middle-class refugee who has fallen on hard times and travels across several boroughs to send his children to the London Oratory.