I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
For decades, British governments - including the Blair-Brown government in which I was an education minister - have done a good job… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Tests account for only a couple of hours within the six years of a child's primary education, but parents expect to know… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college,… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Universities should be supporting Teach First, actively promoting it among their students and financially supporting them to join the scheme, using a… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Bruce Liddington, who has died aged 70, was the most exotic creature in the Department for Education in the 2000s. In a… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we need those… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Brexit is not, thankfully, a question of war. But, like Iraq, Brexit is an act of unprovoked self-harm and a massive strategic mistake that… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Britain's railways don't need to be wholly nationalised and they don't need to be operated solely by private companies. Both of these myopias harm… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The motorway network helps bind Britain together. It remains an extraordinary achievement, making a huge contribution to our economy and our way of life. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
It is clear to me that when London has expanded successfully in the past, there has always been a plan. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I thought I'd left politics when Labour lost the 2010 election and I went off and ran a thinktank for two years and founded… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the governance needed… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
By managing the speed of traffic and opening the hard shoulder as a new running lane in times of congestion, the M42 pilot showed… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
