A damaging row over grammar schools policy, unease among the grassroots about the leadership's efforts to introduce more women and ethnic minority parliamentary candidates and Gordon Brown's self - assured performance as Prime Minister in the summer of 2007 imperilled the Tory recovery. (conservativehome.blogs.com)
Improving social mobility through education is key but experts are unanimous that her reheated grammar school policy is not the way to achieve it. (politics.co.uk)
A report by the Sutton Trust, the social mobility charity, argues that the prime minister — who highlighted the plight of the «Jams» before last month's Autumn Statement — should rethink her proposals because the families she most wants to help will benefit the least from a reinvigorated grammar school policy. (suttontrust.com)