Lucy Powell: “Yes. I can't make any promises, but it needs looking at.”

They have to take some responsibility for creating … a system that has left over a million young people now not in education, training or employment. The current approach has left too many behind.

The idea that academic and technical education are rivals competing for status belongs in the past.

We want young people to have that deeper understanding in literacy and numeracy but across a range of subjects.

The one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t suit all children. For some it’s become a straitjacket. A straitjacket that has left too many being branded a failure – again and again – instead of being able to realise their potential.