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Nick Clegg on tuition fees, free schools and that IKEA cabinet
Gary Gibbon blogs on Nick Clegg’s interview with Channel 4 News – where the Liberal Democrat leader is asked about the government’s free schools policy and stance on tuition fees.
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In his first speech as Labour leader, Ed Miliband contrasted his optimism with David Cameron’s supposed pessimism, labelled the Iraq war “wrong”, talked about shelf stackers’ wages, railed against infringements of civil liberties and said he came from a generation of school children who’d been taught in temporary classrooms. But did he get his facts right?
Gary Gibbon blogs on Nick Clegg’s interview with Channel 4 News – where the Liberal Democrat leader is asked about the government’s free schools policy and stance on tuition fees.
The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News that party members who voted against the coalition government’s plans to set up free schools have misunderstood what the policy is about.
If Lib Dems, resourceful and determined activists and councilors some of them, decide they want to throw every spanner they can at the free schools movement they could be useful allies for the teacher unions and others already engaged in that campaign, writes Politicsl Editor Gary Gibbon.
The coalition’s schools policy comes under fire from activists at the Lib Dem conference in a move that risks embarrassing the party leadership, says Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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