Education and Skills Bill

My biggest comeuppance in politics was when I was standing in Loughborough and, thinking I had done frightfully well, asked the person who had driven my most distant supporter, an old lady on the edge of Bosworth constituency, whether she had said why she voted Conservative. He said, ““She said that George Brown is such a nice gentleman, you have to vote Tory””. It made me realise that I had been wasting my time. I will not waste your Lordships’ time. I beg leave to withdraw my amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 56 agreed to.