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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

The school which launched the Reeves sisters into politics would fail under Labour reforms, claim Tories

Rachel and Ellie Reeves - (Getty Images)

The school which educated chancellor Rachel Reeves and her sister, the Labour chair Ellie Reeves, would have been held back by the reforms the government introduced this week, the Tories have claimed.

A row has broken out after Ellie Reeves tweeted about Tory leader Kemi Badenoch visiting her old school - previously named Cator Park School for Girls, now Harris Girls’ Academy in Lewisham - to make her case for why changes introduced by education secretary Bridget Phillipson this week were wrong.

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