Lucy Powell: “the treadmill of failure of GCSE English and maths.”

I absolutely don’t want schools to dumb down. My kids might say I’m a tiger mum. You know, I’m a tiger mum for all our kids – every single child that’s in our education system achieving excellence, achieving what they can do.

And I’m not going to sort of change my opinion on that just because I’m now the secretary of state.

He [Burnham] really understands the bigger, bolder measures that are needed to live up to the manifesto promises.

Too many young people face unnecessary barriers to apprenticeships, college places and training.