article_snippet.sent: All three of the main parties’ education spokesmen revealed ’ education spokesmen would have no problem with the next Education Secretary sending ’ education spokesmen children to private school.
article_snippet.sent: The outbreak of honesty among politicians came when the BBC’s Daily Politics show presenter Andrew Neil, asked if it would be a ‘acceptable for an education secretary to send their children to a private school’.
article_snippet.sent: All three of the main parties’ education spokesmen - pictured on the BBC's Daily Politics show today - revealed they would have no problem with the next Education Secretary sending their children to private school the next Education Secretary sending their children to private school they .
article_snippet.sent: Two of Tristram Hunt, Labour’s shadow education secretary three children go to a state primary school in north London, with the third expected to go to private school.
article_snippet.sent: But Tristram Hunt, Labour’s shadow education secretary has not ruled out switching they to independent schools.
article_snippet.sent: In contrast, Labour leader Ed Miliband refused to publicly support Labour’s deputy Scottish Leader, Anas Sarwar, when Labour leader Ed Miliband chose to send Labour leader Ed Miliband son to a private school in Glasgow.
article_snippet.sent: Privately-educated Schools Minister David Laws – who has no children - immediately said
article_snippet.sent: ‘yes’ when asked whether a future education secretary should be able to send their children private.
article_snippet.sent: And Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, who was privately educated but sends his son to a state primary, said:
article_snippet.sent: Ukip’s James Arnott and the Green Party’s James Humphreys also agreed that there was no problem with a future Education Secretary sending Ukip’s James Arnott and the Green Party’s James Humphreys children private – although Mr Arnott added it would be an ‘indictment’ of the quality of state schools.
article_snippet.sent: Just seven per cent of children in the UK are privately educated.
article_snippet.sent: Ukip has pledged to bring back grammar schools by converting some existing comprehensives but Mrs Morgan said it would be a
article_snippet.sent: Tristram Hunt, Labour’s shadow education secretary, was asked if it was acceptable for an Education Secretary to send Tristram Hunt, Labour’s shadow education secretary child private.
article_snippet.sent: The rare frankness about whether they would send they children private is in stark contrast to the controversy sparked by Miss Abbott.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Abbott had previously criticised Harriet Harman, now Labour’s deputy leader, for sending Miss Abbott children to a selective grammar school.
article_snippet.sent: While many politicians on the Left have avoided paying to send many politicians on the Left children to get the best education, many politicians on the Left have managed to get many politicians on the Left into elite taxpayer-funded schools.
article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband, who stopped for a selfie with passers by at Sheffield railway station today, has vowed to halt the Coalition's education reforms .
article_snippet.sent: The Prime Minister, campaigning with supporters in Cornwall today, has vowed to turn all failing schools into academies .
highlights_snippet.sent: Main parties' school spokesmen backed right to opt out of state education .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Main parties' school spokesmen were asked if an Education Secretary could choose private school .
  
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  Education Secretary Nicky Morgan agreed, as did the Lib Dem David Laws .