Torbay's trio of grammar schools is safe in Tory hands, according to one of the borough's leading Conservatives.
A return to a grammar school education system would deepen the divisions between rich and poor, the Conservatives said yesterday when shadow education secretary David Willetts rejected the view - for years a strongly held Tory belief - that academic selection is the best way to raise school standards.He claimed the Tories would build more of retiring Prime Minister Tony Blair's favoured privately-sponsored city academies than will be opened under a Gordon Brown government.
Marcus Wood, the Torbay Tory prospective Parliamentary candidate, said: "The Torquay and Churston grammar schools are safe with us if local people want to keep them."
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