But the collapse of the Tory manifesto social care plan, plus the Government’s lack of a workable Commons majority, all but rule out radical change to the system.
Yes, we need a resource shift to technical education. But the loss of the Tory majority last June will make it very slow going.
A catspaw of Osborne? A competitor to Policy Exchange? A resource for a modernising leadership candidate? The truth is more subtle and interesting.
But in his new book, he does not quite explain why she has remained Prime Minister.
Reshuffles, reorganisations, investigations – the Director General of the Propriety and Ethics Team in the Cabinet Office is always in on the action.
His new thriller is readable, but lets the British Prime Minister and Establishment of 1938 off far too lightly.
We have our reservations about the Foreign Secretary, but concede that he alone, of those Ministers who spoke this week, made the Tory message sing.
The Prime Minister must explain today how reforming the system will deliver more gains for workers and familes than tearing it up.
The phonics check for six year olds and the free schools programme are genuine breakthroughs.
As the Conservatives anxiously mull their prospects with younger voters, shouldn’t they think a bit more about the two-thirds who don’t go to University?
The Chancellor has not always been well treated by his neighbour, and deserves support over public spending. But he has mishandled his internal position over Brexit.
Can the Prime Minister’s vision be rescued from the wreckage of the campaign?