article_snippet.sent: All three of the main parties' education spokesmen revealed the main parties' education spokesmen would have no problem with the next education secretary sending the main parties' education spokesmen children to private school.
article_snippet.sent: The BBC's Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil asked the trio if such a choice would be 'acceptable for an education secretary'.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's Tristram Hunt, who was privately educated, said: 'Yes.
article_snippet.sent: Two of his three children go to a state primary school in North London, with the third expected to go to the same school.
article_snippet.sent: But his has not ruled out switching his three children to independent schools.
article_snippet.sent: Privately educated Schools Minister David Laws – who has no children – immediately said 'yes' to the question.
article_snippet.sent: Ukip's Jonathan Arnott and the Green Party's James Humphreys also agreed there was no problem with a future education secretary sending Ukip's Jonathan Arnott and the Green Party's James Humphreys children private – though Mr Arnott added it would be an 'indictment' of the quality of state schools.
article_snippet.sent: Only 7 per cent of children in the UK are privately educated.
article_snippet.sent: Ukip has pledged to bring back grammar schools by converting some comprehensives, but Mrs Morgan said it would be a 'step backwards'.
article_snippet.sent: The rare frankness about whether they would opt for a private education for they children is in stark contrast to the controversy sparked by Labour Left-winger Diane Abbott sending her son to the exclusive fee-paying City of London School.
article_snippet.sent: Labour Left-winger Diane Abbott sending her son to the exclusive fee-paying City of London School had previously criticised Harriet Harman, now Labour's deputy leader, for sending Labour Left-winger Diane Abbott sending her son to the exclusive fee-paying City of London School children to a selective grammar school.
article_snippet.sent: Many politicians on the Left have managed to get Many politicians on the Left children into elite state schools.