Lucy Powell: “The shine is well and truly coming off Reform.”

the whole of government machinery can work in service of the agenda and the vision that the Labour government is setting out under Andy Burnham

I’m not here to worry about private schools. I’m here to worry about state schools.

the treadmill of failure of GCSE English and maths.

So, look, the Government has committed to a review of that. It is … very much at the top of my in-tray as the secretary of state.