Hopefully,Ruth Kelly will have enough on her mind without worrying about airfields for now...
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Outcry as Kelly sends child to private school
FORMER Education Secretary Ruth Kelly was today named as the minister who had enrolled one of her children in an elite £15,0000-a-year private prep school.
The move, revealed yesterday, has outraged Labour MPs.
But until today the identity of Mrs Kelly - a Roman Catholic mother of four now in charge of English Local Government in the Cabinet, was unknown. Mrs Kelly has taken one of her children out of state education near her East London home and opted for a Home Counties private boarding school that makes a priority of helping pupils pass entrance exams to Eton and Harrow - two of England's top public schools.
Mrs Kelly decided there was inadequate help in local schools for the child who is understood to have reading and learning difficulties.
Her decision to take the controversial step has been strongly criticised by backbench MPs.
Norwich North's Ian Gibson said the move was "wrong" adding: "I deprecate anybody, any minister who chooses to do this."