Secretaries of state for education come and go – and increasingly rapidly over the course of the past 12 months, which has seen three arrive and depart.
One, Michelle Donelan, lasted two days. Now we have our fourth – Kit Malthouse – who recently spoke to the Conservative Party faithful at their annual conference in Birmingham about his priorities in office.
I was at the conference and hoped to hear a change of tone from Mr Malthouse compared to that of his predecessors. I was disappointed.
He doubled down on the tired old mantra of “standards” – he was second to none in his drive to “challenge mediocrity” and to achieve “excellence in the basics”.
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