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Gove: Tougher and smarter
Tories: Make teachers tougher and smarter

By politics.co.uk staff Teachers should be better educated before they are given classes, the Tories have suggested. In a keynote speech outlining the party’s education policies, shadow educations secretary Michael Gove also said teachers would be given more robust powers to deal with pupil misbehaviour. “A Conservative government will give every child the kind of… Read more »

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Miliband: political, not legal
Copenhagen deal will be ‘political’ not ‘legal’

By Hollie Slade The Copenhagen summit is unlikely to produce a legally binding way forward on tackling climate change, Ed Miliband has admitted. Speaking to the House of Commons, Miliband said that a “political agreement” was a more likely outcome which he hoped to drive forward “on a very clear timetable, to a legally binding… Read more »