Last week Guido revealed Deputy Leader Angela Rayner pledged to abolish all private schools, a policy that would be a a financial and logistical disaster. Alongside Rayner was Reeves, cheerily nodding along to the idea of taking away parents’ freedom to choose where to send their kids. Though Reeves wanted to go even further…
Guido has unearthed a clip of Rachel Reeves in 2018 saying she has “always and will always oppose” selective schools. That includes grammar schools and private schools. She admitted she thinks schools shouldn’t be able to select highly skilled students:
“I would like to see more children educated at comprehensive schools and that means fewer children being educated at grammar and private schools. I feel this strongly [about this] as you can never have a true system of comprehensive education whilst you still have selection. I have always and will always oppose more selection in our education system I think it is a backwards step not a forward step.”
Will she fulfil her promise to see fewer selective schools in the country – a subject she feels so “strongly” about? “Socialists say ‘equality.’ What they mean is ‘levelling down'”…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”