Sports Minister Hugh Robertson said:
“To see the school sport debate simply as a question of competitive sport versus participation is an over-simplification… I have been tearing my hair out for the last three or four days because the terms in which this debate has been conducted have not been helpful to finding a solution.”
Whoever could he be talking about…



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