Matthew Dancona

Standing Firm

I said we would stand our ground on grammar schools – on all fronts. See my piece in today’s Sunday Telegraph, which discloses Tory plans to select by race, but not brains. The Tories are doing their best to close down the row: Liam Fox also has a piece in the Sunday Telegraph, as does David Cameron in the Mail on Sunday. But as Coffee House hero, Rocky Balboa, would say: It ain’t over till it’s over.

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