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Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt abandoned yesterday a Labour pledge to let councils take control of free schools and academies.
Labour promised earlier this month to allow thousands of English schools to revert to local authority control and end a Tory ban on new community schools.
Former education spokesman Stephen Twigg made the commitments at a conference of school governors and a Labour spokesman confirmed that it was "agreed policy."
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