Peter Hoskin

Your choice for the Speakership

Ok, voting has now officially closed on the Coffee House Speaker poll.  Turns out that CoffeeHousers would like to see Ann Widdecombe win the Speakership – and by quite some distance.  Here are the top three positions:

Ann Widdecombe — 44.2 percent Sir George Young — 22.1 percent Sir Alan Haselhurst — 12.8 percent

Meanwhile, the actual vote rumbles on…

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The Labour government seems determined to undermine excellence in schools. The Department for Education has announced that from February it will be terminating its Latin Excellence Programme, which taught Latin to over 5,000 pupils, as part of a cost-saving measure. The cutback comes a month after a review suggested ‘middle-class bias’ should be removed from the curriculum

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