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How many Tories oppose grammars?

Nicky Morgan says Tory opposition to grammar schools may present challenges for the government.

The former education secretary and Conservative MP told the Westminster Hour that "there are quite a number of colleagues (on the Conservative benches) who for a variety of different reasons are uncomfortable about this as a direction of travel for policy".

She added: "there are certainly enough that I think the government would have to think very carefully about whether they would get the proposals as currently constituted through.鈥

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