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Labour is ‘setting back a generation’ of schoolchildren with a wave of education reforms, former Tory minister Michael Gove warned today.
The ex-education secretary accused his successor Bridget Phillipson of undoing two decades of improvements in English, maths and science with a raft of changes.
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, currently making its way through parliament, would limit the freedom academies have over pay, curriculum, staff recruitment and uniform.
But it is coming up against increasingly strong kickback, with warnings that it is a union takeover of education and uniformity will lead to a drop in standards.
Speaking to LBC today Mr Gove, who became editor of the Spectator magazine after quitting Parliament at the election, said: ‘It’s setting back a generation.
‘It’s not just me. Labour MPs like Siobhan McDonough have attested to the fact that the changes that we saw over the last two decades, which were …