Graham Brady MP has visited Royal Mail’s Altrincham delivery office to pass on best Christmas wishes and encouragement to the postmen and women at their busiest time of year.
It used to be thought obvious that state grammar schools were an important way of opening opportunity more widely in a country that had long been too bound up in social class. Early socialists could see this and promoted scholarship schemes to widen access. Direct grant schools and the grammar schools that flourished after the 1944 Education Act enjoyed wide political support and in the post-war years the Labour party was keen even to find a way to break open the great public schools to working-class children.
On November 13th I stood shoulder to shoulder with my neighbour, Paul Goggins the MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey.
