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Education and Inspections Bill

The hon. Gentleman paints a picture of Kent that I do not recognise, and nor would my colleagues or the heads and staff of Kent secondary modern and high schools. We did not reach the tripping point because the level was set far too high. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that the conversations between people who, like me, were campaigning for change, and the parents of primary school children were not on the lines of, ““That’s all right, I know my child’s not going to get into the grammar school, but let’s vote for the status quo anyway””. It was the ambition of all of them to get their children into grammar schools, but they did not. If we held those conversations again, the answer would be very different. Finally, has the hon. Gentleman ever met a high school head or teacher who supports selection—