The periodic opportunity to change the fate of the nation has been and gone and we can only make educated guesses about what lies in store.
The last coalition government rushed through the Academies Act when its feet were barely under the Cabinet table. Most of the education policies that followed were not signalled in a manifesto, but then as a composite of two parties neither had been elected on its programme to govern.
The coalition set out with a crisis-driven narrative. By the October 2010 financial statement, there was a growing confidence that the spectre of financial Armageddon had taken hold and unthinkable cuts became thinkable.
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