Mrs Theresa May - A Correction and a Clarification

I am delighted to announce (though I can’t link or reproduce because it is behind a pay wall) that ‘The Times’ print edition has this morning noted in its ‘Corrections and Clarifications’ corner that Mrs Theresa May, in the slightly coy words of her own website here http://www.tmay.co.uk/biography

“had a varied education spanning both the state and private sectors, and both grammar school and comprehensive school” .  

 

(That is to say, she attended a private Convent School (St Juliana’s, Begbroke), and then gained a place at a (selective) Girls’ Grammar School (Holton Park)  before it was merged into a comprehensive)

 

Our national journal of record had said, on September 27, that Mrs May attended ‘Wheatley Park Comprehensive’, without elaboration.

 

Now that ‘The Times’ has printed this clarification, which will appear in all newspaper libraries, I don’t think any competent journalist will have any excuse, in future, for oversimplifying Mrs May’s secondary education. If she does indeed become a candidate for the leadership of the Tory Party, and even more if she actually wins the post, this will be important.