There should be zero tolerance of this dangerous heresy in schools.

The number of pupils who adhere to all these recommendations on any given day is zero. The number of staff who obey this list is likewise nil.

Mr. Gove had every right to send his child to this school of his choosing. To shine a light on another, far more ideally-located school, the likes of which the general public should hold in high regard, and then to have sent his own child to a school which – in his wife’s words (journalist Sarah Vine) – ‘is not exactly Sinkhouse High’, is an act of great, and condemnable hypocrisy. To further boast about having sent his child to a “state” school is an act of spin, which does discredit to his profession.