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The education secretary has to backtrack on plans to make all state schools academies. Susan Hulme has the best of Monday's debates in the Commons and the Lords.

The Government is forced to do an embarrassing U-turn on plans to make all state schools academies. Susan Hulme reports on the Education Secretary's statement to the Commons.
Also on this programme:
* MPs support the move to allow more unaccompanied Syrian child refugees to come to Britain from Europe.
* As the junior doctors dispute continues, doubts are raised over whether patient deaths in hospitals do actually rise at weekends.
* MPs debate the worsening situation in Wormwood Scrubs jail in London.
* Peers mock those who predicted doom and disaster 17 years ago if Britain didn't join the euro.
* There's condemnation of the idea to allow cars and lorries to use hard shoulder lanes on motorways to increase capacity.

28 minutes

Last on

Tue 10 May 2016 08:31

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