How May put grammar schools back at the heart of Conservative thinking

For Cameron, the Tory preoccupation with selection showed it was backward looking. His successor sees it differently

Two months after the change of regime in Downing Street, nothing has marked the difference between the Conservatism of Theresa May and the Conservatism of David Cameron more sharply than the question of grammar schools.

This week the grammar-school-educated new prime minister put educational selection back at the heart of Tory educational thinking for the first time since the 1970s – albeit in a very different way from the past. Yet her Eton-educated predecessor once defined himself by insisting that there would be “no return” to selection at 11 and no new grammar schools.

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