Oh dear. Has it really come to this? Following the news that Unison, England's biggest public sector union, has thrown its weight behind Ed Miliband, Ed Balls has launched yet another attack on Free Schools in a desperate attempt to shore up his Labour leadership campaign.
He has given an interview in today's Guardian in which he claims Free Schools will lead to social segregation. "I fear there will be a new form of social apartheid – educational apartheid," he says. Apparently, it has escaped him that Britain is already riven by educational apartheid, namely, the division between state schools and private schools. Odd that, considering Balls himself is the product of a fee-paying school. (To read more, click here.)
