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Sheep and Goats

  • Mark Devenport
  • 16 May 07, 04:36 PM

"Parents don't want their children sorted into sheep and goats at the age of eleven". Who said that today? Martin McGuinness? Catriona Ruane? No, it was David Cameron explaining his latest policy shift on grammar schools. The local Tories have put out a statement saying that grammar schools in Northern Ireland work well and they will continue to back academic selection. Their NI Spokesman David Lidington has echoed that view. But could the Cameroonian shift influence the unionist nationalist debate about academic selection?

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  • At 01:07 AM on 17 May 2007,
  • noel adams wrote:

Newsnight reported 90% of tory MPs at tonights 1922 meeting very unhapy with policy swich the change is good but DC will now have a real job selling this to backbenchers and ordinary members.

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