The post-Brexit Referendum Conservative Government unveiled the creation of new grammar schools as its flagship education policy.40 Whatever the arguments over grammars, no one would claim they are the vehicle to address the country’s basic skills problem. New measures to judge schools meanwhile prompted concerns that children with the poorest exam prospects will be excluded from schools to maximize their headline test scores.41 And the National Audit Office warned that state schools faced the biggest real-terms cuts in a generation.42
