Author:Robert Peal
Nicky Morgan: Now to curb Ofsted's powers (photo: Department for Education)
Prior to his removal as Education Secretary in July 2014, Michael Gove took to teasing his more obdurate opponents by prefacing meetings with the statement, “Now that I am approaching my halfway point as Education Secretary . . .” Now Gove has a new and equally arduous task as Justice Secretary in the new parliament. Instead, it falls to the significantly more emollient figure of Nicky Morgan to bed in the last five years of education reforms.