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Heavy defeat for Lib Dem leadership on free schools
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.