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Birmingham schools 'Trojan horse' claim dismissed

MICHAEL GOVE’S free market schools experiment was singled out yesterday as the cause for a curriculum of intolerance that was fed to children at Birmingham academies. 

But former Met police counter-terrorism head Peter Clarke dismissed claims of a “Trojan horse” takeover of Birmingham schools by extremists. 

In a report released yesterday he was clear that he “neither specifically looked for, nor found, evidence of terrorism, radicalisation or violent extremism.”

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