It's one thing to suggest that the 11+ needs to be replaced, but it's quite another to say that, despite evidence to the contrary, getting shot of academic selection completely will lead to anything other than a second-rate, comprehensive, education system like the one rejected by teachers and by parents in England and Wales.

As someone who benefited from a grammar school education, it saddens me to think that future children from backgrounds like mine will be placed in schools based on ability to pay rather than ability to keep up with the work, because liberal do-gooders decide that everyone (and therefore no-one) has the right to be a winner.