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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1963.

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Photo of Sir Edward Boyle Sir Edward Boyle , Birmingham Handsworth 12:00, 4 July 1963

This is exactly the point I am on, because the statement of the party opposite, that it is to abolish the 11-plus, was slightly weakened by the statement of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, that any grammar school would be closed over his dead body.

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