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JEREMY CORBYN set out plans yesterday for a radical shake-up of education that will see it run and funded in the style of the NHS.
The Labour leader announced that a government led by him would establish a national education service that would ensure “nowhere and no-one is left behind.”
He compared the plan to the birth of the NHS under Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour government, vowing that it would “enshrine the principle of education free for all at the point of use as official Labour policy.”
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
