Improving Schools Programme

Part of Prayers – in the House of Commons at 10:14 am on 1 November 1996.

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Photo of Peter Kilfoyle Peter Kilfoyle , Liverpool, Walton 10:14, 1 November 1996

One of the great misunderstandings among Conservatives is that we want to drag people down. We do not. We want to drag everybody up. We want everybody to share the benefits of the excellent education that no doubt most of the youngsters on the assisted places scheme get. And we have a different set of priorities, because a reduction in class sizes, which will enable all our children to get on to the ladder of educational opportunity, is far more important than providing a subsidy to independent schools and giving an advantage to 33,000 or 34,000 youngsters.