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By politics.co.uk staff Former Countdown co-host Carol Vorderman will head a Conservative taskforce into mathematics teaching, party leader David Cameron has said. Her selection comes as the party leadership spearheads a ‘mathematics’ drive amid warnings of an “apartheid” between state and private school maths teaching. The Tory leader said half of 16-year-olds had scored less… Read more »
By Blaine Williams An emergency ‘clean-up’ of the Lords is underway with Jack Straw, justice secretary, bringing forward new legislation to bring Lords regulation more into line with that of MPs. The new legislation will force all peers to be permanent residents of the UK and pay full British tax. The move will mean that… Read more »
