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Education Bill

The Secretary of State is not even convincing his own activists. On ConservativeHome today, there was an article by Ed Watkins, a music teacher in south London and the deputy chairman of Dulwich and West Norwood Conservatives. [Hon. Members: ““Hear, hear.””] Conservative Members cheer him, but will they still be cheering in a moment? He wrote:"““The principles lying behind the English Baccalaureate are therefore grounded in a sensible solution to a problem.””—" He is halfway there with that. He continued:"““Those principles have, however, been applied in an arbitrary manner in the selection of subjects. Why History but not R.E.? Why Biblical Hebrew but not Art? Why Geography but not Music?””" It seems that rather than heckling me, the Secretary of State has a little more work to do with his own side.