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Tests account for only a couple of hours within the six years of a child’s primary education, but parents expect to know how their children are doing and the government has a responsibility to monitor and control standards.
International examples prove that high-speed rail pays for itself.
I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.
Not one single country in the world is dependent for their trade wholly on WTO guidelines – they aren’t ‘rules,’ because the sanctions for breaching the guidelines are puny.
In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference.
No matter the evidence or the experience, the Conservative party has been allergic to direct state involvement in running our railways.
Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.
By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.
We have moral duties to the dispossessed – and should be taking our fair share of Syrian refugees, particularly parentless children.
For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question.
All partners in the workplaces have a key role to play in training a workforce fit for the future.
Nothing is clear cut in the debate surrounding high-speed rail, but from its successes elsewhere we can be confident that it pays a great dividend to the society it serves.
Global warming – utterly disinterested in our political paralysis – worsens at a terrifying pace.
In Germany, apprentices undergo a final examination in the vocational school and an oral examination and practical test in the workplace. The same should happen in Britain.
For decades, British governments – including the Blair-Brown government in which I was an education minister – have done a good job of enhancing higher education but paid too little attention to apprenticeships and technical education.
Having achieved something so special as peace, it is criminal to throw it away on a whim.
The motorway network helps bind Britain together. It remains an extraordinary achievement, making a huge contribution to our economy and our way of life.
England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.
What we need is fundamental reform to address the deep social and economic problems that are gripping people and communities nationwide, particularly the least advantaged.
In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.
For the Conservative Party to become the mouthpiece of energy monopolists is not only a political error; it is fundamentally at variance with the liberal economics they claim to espouse.
I’m never drunk. I do drink but never more than a glass or two of wine a day if that.
It is simply not possible to achieve the ‘freedom’ from E.U. economic institutions that Brexiters want without undermining Britain’s economy and security.
Academies place a high premium on local community engagement.
You should be completely honest and open in public about who you are.
School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, is to be realised: there is no room for complacency.
I want a European future where we extend and reinforce peace and prosperity to the east, a future where workers are better protected and inequalities reduced, where our energy and lifestyles are clean and green, where democracy is enhanced, where taxes are paid and corporations play by fair rules.
It is important to understand that the WTO, like the United Nations, is a weak international agency which depends upon financing and support from its largest members.
What most teachers need is very strong leadership and motivation, and when it comes to recruiting teachers you want to have the biggest possible pool possible.
London’s night economy is huge and it couldn’t function without London’s night buses.
Theresa May is singularly unsuited for high office and lacks political talent.
When I was a minister I only went on about things I was going to make happen. I very rarely talked about things I wasn’t.
The original sin of Brexit – the lies, contradictions, half-truths and omissions on which it was built – have come back to haunt the Thatcherite Tories who started all this with Nigel Farage and Ukip.
England’s dominant schools, universities, professions and enterprises are largely in the ideological and filial grip of the Conservative party. This isn’t always obvious but it is emphatic, especially when they are threatened.
Until the late 1950s Britain’s leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German Autobahn had opened before the first world war, as did the first highway in the U.S. Other countries followed suit in the inter-war years.
Yes, I have found many people who voted for Brexit and believe it will answer their problems. But they mostly realise that Europe isn’t the problem, however much the E.U. could be improved.
It is a vital British and European interest to demonstrate to Putin that Trump is on our side, not his.
Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.
The individuals who intervened in my life, transformed it, didn’t do so in a vacuum. One was a manager of a children’s home, a whole string of them were teachers. What they had in common was that they worked in successful institutions.
I am an electoral reformer and an ex-Lib Dem.
Lots of my contemporaries have had to come to terms with who they are and realise all those deeply held assumptions we had when we were teenagers and in our 20s no longer apply.
On the left, nationalisation is pursued for its own sake – as a panacea that will somehow fix train travel all by itself.
In the end, pragmatism requires a workable compromise. But none exists on Brexit.
As a Londoner who delights in the capital’s dynamism and diversity, I none the less agree with Ken Livingstone that London hosts too great a share of our national institutions. Where sensible, more should be located in other cities, particularly new or reformed institutions that involve new facilities.
The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies.
Britain’s railways don’t need to be wholly nationalised and they don’t need to be operated solely by private companies. Both of these myopias harm our ability to get the best deal for passengers.
When a small number of companies control both the generation and the supply of energy, it’s difficult for new players to enter the market.
Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin – the man, the college, and the speech.
Brexit is a cliff, not a gradient. The mistake we are in danger of making is to believe that some Brexits are better than others when the fundamental problem is Brexit itself.
Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm.
