Bringing back grammar schools risks undermining education progress, says sacked Education Secretary Nicky Morgan

BRINGING back grammar schools was branded a “distraction” yesterday by sacked Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

She said PM Theresa May’s reforms would not help areas with poor schools and risked undermining six years of work to improve standards.

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Influential backbenchers and peers have also vowed to fight any comeback for grammars.

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Ms Morgan told ITV’s Peston on Sunday yesterday how Mrs May struggled for words during her face-to-face sacking.

“I had to help her utter the phrase, ‘So you’d like to let me go’?”