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Cabinet revolt over parent power

Tony Blair faces an open cabinet revolt over plans to boost 'parent power', shaking up admissions and allowing oversubscribed schools to expand rapidly.

The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, is fighting an unprecedented rearguard action, saying the plans would condemn a generation of poorer children to ghettos of collapsing schools.

He has warned Blair, to whom he is usually unwaveringly loyal, that struggling schools will be tipped over the edge by the expansion of stronger neighbours and that working class parents would rather have good local schools than complex new choices.

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