Education Secretary Gavin Williamson’s popularity with Tory grassroots rises after school return

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson’s remains by far the most unpopular Cabinet minister despite a tiny surge in support after schools return announcement – as poll finds new Brexit chief Lord Frost is more popular than the PM By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 13:02 GMT, 5 March 2021 | Updated: 13:24 GMT, 5 … Read more

HENRY DEEDES: Gavin WIlliamson’s credibility problem

It’s hard to look at Gavin Williamson without seeing him wearing dunce’s hat: HENRY DEEDES watches the Education Secretary’s statement in Parliament By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 25 February 2021 Just as confidence in the Government is returning to vaguely respectable levels, enter … Read more

Gavin Williamson’s plan for A-Levels and GCSEs ‘will be wide open to abuse’

How will Gavin Williamson’s GCSE and A-Level plan actually work? Gavin Williamson today unveiled his plan for awarding GCSE and A-Level grades this summer after exams were cancelled because of the pandemic. The Education Secretary is putting the power in teachers’ hands to award grades.  They will be able to draw on a range of … Read more

HENRY DEEDES: Gavin Williamson’s face had the look of a boy outside the head’s study

Rambling. Wildly incoherent. Those beardy weirdies from Extinction Rebellion were out in Parliament Square again yesterday, subjecting all of us to hours of indecipherable gibberish.  Despite being supposedly educated, they’re a decidedly inarticulate rabble. Their speakers were about as stirring as the cider-fuelled Morris dancers at my local summer fete.  Mind you, things were no … Read more