'Everyone' was convinced that Elizabeth Truss would be moving on from her position as education and childcare minister. Rumours had been flying around for months about likely replacements; her appearance at the Resolution Foundation event was cancelled at the last minute.
But 'everyone' was wrong, as it became apparent following the live feed of ministerial ins and outs to the very end of the day. One wonders if Ms Truss's obviously exasperated comments about early years experts in a national newspaper, referred to by Nancy Stewart in her column opposite, betrayed her own belief that she would be free of those misguided souls very soon.
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