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Tories ‘will turn schools into big business’
Hunt warns Cameron sees profit in education
TRISTRAM HUNT has shone a spotlight on top Tories’ plot to run schools for profit if they win the general election.
Labour’s shadow education secretary gave a “cast-iron guarantee” at the weekend that he would never support for-profit schooling when pressed on the issue at NASUWT conference.
But he warned teachers that there was a “drum beat” towards the controversial move within the Conservative Party.
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