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Hello and welcome to the political party. I hope this episode finds you well. Today's guest

is Robert Halff on chair of the commons education select committee. And what a time to be talking

to him. And I'll say this at the start. If you check on the show notes, whatever device you

listen to this on, just look at the blurb because I've put a link to the commons select committee

report written over published over six weeks ago. That's all this whole thing coming with

the exams fiasco. The whole report is concerned about the downgrading, particularly of disadvantaged

kids grades. The concerns with the algorithm all laid out there. It's an easy report to read.

I appreciate that of an evening you'd rather watch as an outselling sunset or Ozark or you'd rather

read a book. But if I mean it's just an incredible thing to read in relatively recent retrospect,

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