Tory education secretaries have been proclaiming their battle for standards since 2010, and yet where has this empty rhetoric gotten us? Nowhere, says Dr Mary Bousted
Secretaries of state for education come and go – and increasingly rapidly over the course of the past 12 months, which has seen three arrive and depart.
One, Michelle Donelan, lasted two days. Now we have our fourth – Kit Malthouse – who recently spoke to the Conservative Party faithful at their annual conference in Birmingham about his priorities in office.
I was at the conference and hoped to hear a change of tone from Mr Malthouse compared to that of his predecessors. I was disappointed.
