Sentences with phrase «over grammar schools policy»
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.
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She has held on to the position despite differences with Theresa May over the Prime Minister's flagship policy to expand the number of grammar schools in England.
Professor Liz Todd, professor of education inclusion of Newcastle University, said that the figures raised questions over the new policy for expanding selection and suggested opening new grammar schools would lead to an expansion of the private tuition market.
The true extent of the opposition faced by the government over its plans to allow new grammar schools to open has been revealed as Conservative MPs voiced their fears in Parliament, with the Scottish National Party joining Labour in vowing to fight the policy «tooth and nail».