Education: Academy Chains

Debate between Lord Nash and Lord West of Spithead

Wednesday 15th January 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Nash]

I believe that a number of noble Lords do send their children to such schools, and I hope that in time, because of the success of the entire state programme, many more will.

[Lord West of Spithead (Lab)]

My Lords, bearing in mind the history curriculum that is taught in academy schools, does the Minister agree with his Secretary of State, who wrote in a recent article that those on the left were unpatriotic?

[Lord Nash]

I applaud my right honourable friend the Secretary of State’s objectivity in all matters.