One of Tony Blair’s closest advisers, Sir Michael Barber, has revealed that he tried to persuade the former prime minister to allow state schools to be run for profit as a way of accelerating school reform. His proposal failed to win support because the Blair administration expected it would cause an outcry among Labour MPs, he said.
School reform needs to be quicker and more aggressive, he says
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