OFSTED inspections put teachers in a conflict between the “morally right thing to do” and “their desire to be professionally successful,” a Tory MP has admitted.

In a fringe meeting hosted by the National Education Union (NEU) at the Conservative conference, Ipswich MP Tom Hunt,  a member of the Commons education select committee, said the English schools inspections system, first introduced by Margaret Thatcher’s government, could be improved.

He said: “The whole point of accountability systems, the whole point of Ofsted, should be: what is the positive difference made by a school? That should be the key thing.