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Education and Inspections Bill

The hon. Gentleman was a member of the Education and Skills Committee and signed up to the report quoted by my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington, North (Helen Jones). When he was a member of our Committee, he was not known for giving the impression that all the schools up and down our country were underperforming, miserable places where children do not get a proper chance at education. I thought that he agreed that many fine community schools do a very good job for their children. Is he not doing himself a disservice by making a speech redolent of the Chris Woodhead philosophy, rather than the philosophy that he held only a few months ago?