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Are grammar schools coming back?

Schools minister Nick Gibb and the shadow schools minister Nic Dakin debated grammar schools on the Daily Politics, after the Weald of Kent School in Tonbridge was allowed to open an "annexe" site in Sevenoaks, side-stepping the ban on opening new grammar schools.

The minister said the Conservatives were not bringing such schools back, while his Labour shadow spoke about concerns that grammar schools only reward the already privileged.

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