Even Tory councillors are up in arms. Osborne should leave schools alone | Simon Jenkins

The planned national schools service is England’s biggest nationalisation project since the NHS – and a gesture of contempt for local democracy

Now for the next revolt. The real news in George Osborne’s budget was not disability benefit cuts. It was the surreptitious launch of England’s biggest nationalisation project since the NHS in 1948.

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Osborne should back off now. This is a nationalisation too far

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