I agree with the shadow Minister that there should always be a way back, but I fail to understand the following fact. When his party were in government, there were plenty of forced mergers and forced school closures through the transforming our primary schools programme and the surplus places legislation. There were thousands of names on petitions against irreversible school closures. Where were the democracy and localism in those decisions?
Academies Bill [Lords]
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Andrew Percy
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 July 2010.
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