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| Tory quits post over grammars row | |
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| Graham Brady has resigned from David Cameron's front bench team after the Conservative row over grammar schools. | |
| The shadow Europe minister spoke out in defence of grammar schools after the party said that selection by ability did not help social mobility. | The shadow Europe minister spoke out in defence of grammar schools after the party said that selection by ability did not help social mobility. |
| He was "severely reprimanded" by the Conservative Party's chief whip and told to stick to his Europe brief. | He was "severely reprimanded" by the Conservative Party's chief whip and told to stick to his Europe brief. |
| But Mr Brady, 40, said "in conscience" he had no option but to resign so he could do what was "right". | |
| "Faced with a choice between a front bench position that I have loved and doing what I believe to be right for my constituents and for the many hundreds of thousands of families who are ill-served by state education in this country, there is in conscience only one option open to me," he said. | |
| Mr Brady's reprimand came after he supplied data to the Times which indicated that in areas with no selective education fewer pupils get five or more GCSEs at grade A*-C including English and maths. | |
| That came as the row over the party's rejection of schools selecting by ability had appeared to be dying down. | |
| Mr Cameron has promised more city academies - the privately sponsored state schools championed by Prime Minister Tony Blair - and more streaming and setting within existing schools. | |
| He has said existing grammar schools would not be axed, but said anyone who thought there might be more grammar schools created were "delusional". |