Lucy Powell: “I think I've called it in the past egregious and I'm not going to change my opinion on that just because I'm now the…”

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.

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

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

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.