Education (Assisted Places)

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 11:43 pm on 5 July 1988.

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Photo of Mr Bob Dunn Mr Bob Dunn , Dartford 11:43, 5 July 1988

I shall give way in a moment— [HON. MEMBERS: "Give way."] No. I must make this point. This has to be placed on the record.

The Labour party has never understood the aspirations of ordinary families. What it forgets is that when a working class child received a place at a grammar school, it was a matter of pride for the whole community. It was never even a matter for contempt or for the anguish described by the hon. Member for Bradford, South—whom I do not see in the Chamber, incidentally