FOR too long, politicians seem to have been labouring under the misapprehension that voters do not care about education. Last week's Tiverton and Honiton by-election has shown this up for the complacent fallacy that it is.
One of the biggest issues reported on doorsteps – and a contributor to the catastrophic losses suffered by the Tories – was the crumbling state of repair of Tiverton High School, whose leaky roof was the subject of a community campaign.
