Tony Blair says he won't close down grammar schools

The Prime Minister has admitted that the Labour party has no plans to scrap grammar schools. In an interview with The Guardian he admits that any such plans would be a PR disaster for the party.

'If you want to have the entire education debate dominated by a war, which is what it would be, over the 160 remaining grammar schools, well you can do that. I ask you, which party is saying that is a war they want?

'If you go after the existing grammar schools, where they've got parental support, you're just going to end up in limitless arguments about how you are trying to close down grammar schools, rather than about how you raise standards in the non-grammar school population.'

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