On Examination

Onwards, then, to university admission after results, as in any sane country. And to the end of the school league tables, which could not be taken seriously on the basis of teacher assessment alone, and which once gone for a year need never come back.

Working-class pupils are twice as likely to be predicted an E grade, and black pupils' grades are staggeringly under-predicted, with only 39 per cent of predictions turning out to have been correct. Boys are also ill-served.

13 years of Labour Government did nothing to improve any of this. Quite the reverse, in fact. The people who make these mistakes are the backbone of the Labour Party's membership, and their children are the direct beneficiaries of the present system. 

The next Leader of the Labour Party is the Leader of the Opposition to the Government's programme of investment in the old Red Wall, he wants to reverse the working class's decisive vote for Brexit, and he was a viciously racist Director of Public Prosecutions, as if there could be any other kind.

Hey, ho. The Budget of March 2020, and the Government's response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, have ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.