10th June, 2012, 7:01 pm Twigg: Labour won’t close Free Schools Mark Ferguson Share this article: Stephen Twigg reiterated in his interview with Andrew Neil on the Sunday Politics what he told me when I interviewed him for Total Politics a few months ago – Labour won’t close Free Schools. Watch the interview below: Tags: Education / Stephen Twigg / Free Schools / Mark Ferguson Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015. View all articles by Mark Ferguson Subscribe to our daily email More from LabourList News Exclusive poll: Labour trails Reform but Starmer rated better PM than Farage Labour trails Reform, but the public still says that Keir Starmer makes a better Prime Minister than Nigel… Luke O'Reilly 4th June, 2025, 12:00 am Analysis Compass event: Is the soft left back – and a beauty parade to lead it underway? It has been a difficult few years for the soft left. But is the least factional of Labour’s… Tom Belger 3rd June, 2025, 10:20 am Comment ‘Instead of scrapping the two child benefit cap – invest in Sure Start’ Tackling child poverty is a necessity for a Labour government. Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would help do… Jake Richards 3rd June, 2025, 8:16 am
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