Fascinating conversation on Radio 5Live today between a Labour and a Conservative about their respective education policies. The Conservative spent most of his time saying “this is what’s currently wrong and this is what we are going to do to fix them”. The Labour man told us what was wrong with the Conservative’s ideas.

I still have no idea what Labour’s plans for education are, other than they involve “choice”.

Whatever that may mean.

One thing the Liberals have got right is their observation that most of us don’t want choice; we’d rather have our closest school/hospital/doctors to be very good. This I agree with; I just don’t see how it can be acheived without some ability for parents/patients to vote with their feet.