CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

EDUCATION – LIBERAL DEMOCRATS - 16 October 2002

EDUCATION – LIBERAL DEMOCRATS - 16 October 2002

Dr Julian Lewis: While the hon. Gentleman is in the business of accusing the Government of being Thatcherite, perhaps he might explain why the Liberal Democrats seem to have gone rather socialist. Is it not a fact that the Liberal Democrats were reported in The Times Educational Supplement of 20 September as planning to do away with the curriculum for infant schools and to revert for those up to the age of seven to an educational policy dependent on learning through play? Is that not a reversion to the 1960s socialist policies that did so much damage to the education of our children?