The government’s u-turn on its manifesto promise to lift the 50% cap on faith-based admissions to new religious free schools is a positive development – and a significant win for secularists ...

The true scale of a Catholic church campaign to defeat admissions quotas for faith schools emerged as Alan Johnson was accused of making "the fastest U-turn in British political history".

The true scale of a Catholic church campaign to defeat admissions quotas for faith schools emerged as Alan Johnson was accused of making "the fastest U-turn in British political history".