TOBY YOUNG may have resigned from his grotesquely unsuitable appointment to the board of the new Office for Students regulatory body, but this vile man and his vile ideology remain a threat to the country’s education system.
After days in which he scrambled to delete over 10,000 of his past tweets, failing miserably to destroy the evidence of his bone-headed sexism, class prejudice and contempt for the disabled, he has thrown in the towel.
The sordid episode is another demonstration of government ineptitude, taking place alongside the botched Cabinet reshuffle that saw Tory HQ announce fictional appointments and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt keep his job despite days of briefing to the right-wing press that he was about to be moved — apparently simply because he begged the Prime Minister to let him off the hook over an NHS crisis which is, to be fair, her government’s fault as much as his own.
