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muriel_volestrangler

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9. That's a bullet dodged - Toby Young resigns from the Office for Students after backlash

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Tue Jan 9, 2018, 05:57 AM

Jan 2018

Toby Young has stepped down from the Office for Students less than 24 hours after the universities minister issued a robust defence of his position in the House of Commons, amid a huge backlash over the free schools champion’s appointment.

In a statement posted on the Spectator website on Tuesday morning, Young said: “My appointment has become a distraction from its vital work of broadening access to higher education and defending academic freedom.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/09/toby-young-resigns-office-for-students

Incredible how the Tories were trying to defend his comments as "all a long time ago", when most were in the last 10 years, while he was setting up his school.

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Toby Young to help lead government's new universities regulator [View all] LeftishBrit Jan 2018 OP

Toby Young would make Michael Gove look reasonable LeftishBrit Jan 2018 #1

Young makes me turn off Newsnight whenever he's on muriel_volestrangler Jan 2018 #2

Next they will be putting Gary Glitter in charge of nursery services T_i_B Jan 2018 #3

Don't give the Mayhem Government ideas! LeftishBrit Jan 2018 #4

Toby Young Has Deleted Tens Of Thousands Of Old Tweets After A Backlash To His New Universities Role Denzil_DC Jan 2018 #5

The tweet from Boris is rather odd T_i_B Jan 2018 #6

Because Boris wants the uppity academics and students taken down a notch muriel_volestrangler Jan 2018 #7

Sigh, yes LeftishBrit Jan 2018 #8

I've been finding reasons lately to re-post this article Denzil_DC Jan 2018 #14

That's a bullet dodged - Toby Young resigns from the Office for Students after backlash muriel_volestrangler Jan 2018 #9

Phew! LeftishBrit Jan 2018 #10

Some of the Tory defences of Young were really shoddy T_i_B Jan 2018 #11

Exposed: Londons eugenics conference and its neo-Nazi links muriel_volestrangler Jan 2018 #12

It takes a lot to render me speechless, but............ LeftishBrit Jan 2018 #13