Twigg: Labour won't close Free Schools

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:

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Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.

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