Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 November 1964.
Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that the disquiet felt by many people at the prospect of the destruction of good existing schools is not altogether allayed by his promise that what is best in existing schools will be sought to be retained? In view of the Prime Minister's statement, to which my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Knutsford (Sir W. Bromley-Davenport) referred, will the right hon. Gentleman make himself a little plainer in order to avoid an embarrassing choice as to the fate of the Prime Minister?