Labour unveiled its proposals for the future of education this week with plans for even greater autonomy for schools.
Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary (pictured), said he would give all schools the freedoms enjoyed by academies if his party wins at the polls in 2015.
And while free schools would not be scrapped, no more would be opened by a future Labour government, he said.
He told an audience at the RSA in London that he wanted an end to a “fragmented, divisive school system”.
Mr Twigg said: “We know that giving schools more freedom over how they teach and how they run and organise their schools can help to raise standards.
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