Bridget Phillipson: “The predicted exodus from private schools simply hasn’t happened and today’s data proves it.”

We’ve had pretty despicable things that the likes of Robert Jenrick have said in the past on his visit to Birmingham.

Let’s be clear: this is no victory for Nigel Farage. The mountain of sleaze and scandal he and Reform are now engulfed in has grown and grown while he’s been trying to distract the public by fighting a by-election against a bin.

Farage has desperately tried to distract from his catalogue of scandals. But the embattled Reform leader has run out of road and must come clean with the public.

We didn’t create enough prison capacity in the years that they were in government so that we don’t have to be even considering these kinds of options, which – in an ideal world – we would not be having to consider.