Nicky Morgan will be visiting lots of schools in the coming weeks as she settles into her new role. However, Guido can reveal she was visiting schools long before she was appointed Education Secretary – specifically Fairfield, a posh boys’ prep school, in Loughborough, Leics. While keen to stress her son is at a state school, a source close to Morgan admitted she had visited the school once for a look round, and not just in the capacity as the local MP. Although she went to a private girls’ school herself, sending her son to a fee-paying school is out of the question now…
UPDATE: A source familiar with the local situation claims Nicky Morgan is “happy with the nearby village school. Her problem may come when he’s 11 because the state schools in this area are not very good.” All the more reason to drive the Gove reforms…