Education Secretary Says Spelling and Grammar Tests Are Too ‘Obscure’ and Takes Aim at Exams and Ofsted

The Education Secretary Lucy Powell is back from holiday and has given her first interview to the BBC’s Matt Chorley.

A disaster… Here are the lines: Powell is anti-exams: “And it’s a lot, isn’t it?

It’s a lot of pressure.

Is it too many?

Well, we’ve just had, the government’s just had this sort of…