The Tories last night accused a former Labour minister of "disgraceful hypocrisy" following reports that she has sent her child to an elite secondary school. The former social security secretary, Ms Harriet Harman, snubbed local comprehensive schools in favour of a top west London school despite living eight miles away, the Sun reported.
The shadow education secretary, Ms Theresa May, accused Ms Harman of "disgraceful hypocrisy" for choosing the establishment over schools in the London borough of Southwark. "This is just typical of New Labour's attitude of `say one thing, do another'," the Tory frontbencher said. "They try to stop other parents exercising choice, while demanding places at the most popular schools for their own children," she said.