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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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It’s back to school for the Tories

Primary schoolchildren wait in playground to enter their school.
Primary schoolchildren wait in playground to enter their school. Photograph: Alamy

You report that a schools bill will be introduced on Tuesday in parliament (Queen’s speech: what bills to expect, 9 May). The education secretary says the bill is designed to “create a school system that works for every child, parent and family”. Why, after 12 years of Conservative government, does such a system not already exist?
Simon Maddison
Hitchin, Hertfordshire

• Re the correspondence about the Daily Mail (Letters, 6 May), once while waiting to fly at Heathrow there was a trolley with free papers. The couple in front of me picked up a Daily Mail in great excitement. I intervened and said that I thought there would probably be plenty of toilet paper on the plane so they needn’t bother taking one. It wasn’t greeted positively.
Dr Michael Maier
London

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