Depending on when you’re reading this, the tectonic plates of the UK’s electoral system will either be in the process of shifting or will have shifted. Either way: a new political landscape lies ahead.
From where I write – looking out at the last few days of political spats and clashing soundbites – it’s felt like an election campaign that, for education at least, has lacked a sense of vision and optimism.
And if we can’t be optimistic about education then something is miserably amiss.
Instead, each political party has served up a hasty smorgasbord of ideas and wishes. For this, we can’t perhaps criticise them too much. Two months ago, who was to know that an election would be called so soon after the last one by a party which had said it was committed to fixed-term Parliaments?
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