London headteacher criticises Labour proposals to limit logos on uniform

Katharine Birbalsingh, the headteacher of Michaela community school, took issue with a string of proposals in the government’s schools bill. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Katharine Birbalsingh has been showered with praise and her advice sought by policymakers around the world after the academic successes of the state school she founded in a deprived area.

Now, the headteacher of Michaela community school in north-west London is locking horns with the government over a new issue: the height of boys’ trousers.