Britain’s hapless Bridget Phillipson is on her way to becoming the worst education secretary this country has ever seen. Here’s what she’s done in only five months: -Dumped free speech protections for universities -Paused funding for successful free schools -Advocated flexible “working from home” for teachers (true idiocy) -Watered down academic attainment as a core metric -Put curriculum review in hands of a Diversity-obsessed woke Professor -Scrapped funding for Latin -Refused to speak positively about high-performing Michaela school -Further eroding high standards by imposing tax hikes on private schools What do you see in all this? A Labour education secretary doing the very opposite of what everybody in education should be doing Instead of putting evidence ahead of ideological dogma she is putting ideological dogma ahead of evidence Instead of raising standards, aspiration and expectations she is actively lowering them And it’s the most important people of all who will suffer: our children.