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Michael Gove under fire for £400m school budget cut
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove came under heavy criticism yesterday as a senior Cabinet minister blasted his £400 million cuts to schools.
The unnamed government source branded Mr Gove an “ideologically obsessed zealot” after it was announced that the budget for new schools was to be slashed to invest in free schools instead.
Such extensive cuts would have been able to fund 30,000 much-needed new school places.
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