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Richard Garner: one of Britain’s education greats
Former Mirror journalist and education correspondent for The Independent, who was the life and soul of the conference circuit

IN the early 1990s, the Daily Mirror ran a story contrasting the squalid state of Britain’s schools under education secretary John Patten and his department’s swanky new offices in Westminster.
The new lodgings, at Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, were costing £12 million in rent, and featured an atrium with foliage hanging from the ceiling to the ground floor.
The following day, Richard Garner, the journalist behind the story, received a phone call from a DfE official.
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