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YAY! May! When I set out my to-do list for the PM last week I wasn’t expecting any of it to be ticked off by the next general election but within less than a week the Prime Minister has announced the return of grammar schools.

I can only hope she tackles the other issues I set out as well.

I know, from 23 years as an MP for a seat where there were indeed grammar schools, that they offer the bright child from a poor background an education for which other parents pay the earth.

That was probably why Tony Blair’s Labour government simply could not persuade people to vote for ballots on their continuation.

Their excellence is why Labour MPs such as Harriet Harman have chosen to send their children there, despite their supposedly principled opposition.

So well done Mrs May. Let me predict that many disgruntled and disillusioned Conservatives will now pay their membership subs again in celebration of the return of a Conservative government.

Mrs May also announced that faith schools may now take up to 100 per cent of pupils from a particular religious background

Yay, again! A quiet but firm stand by the Catholic Church has produced this excellent result.

Faced with having to turn away Catholic pupils in favour of children from other faiths, the church did not wave banners or take to the streets: it just stopped opening any new schools in the same way that, bullied by Blair and Cameron to place children with homosexual couples, it just got rid of its adoption agencies.

The effects of both were sad.

Catholic adoption agencies were widely acknowledged as being especially adept at finding homes for the hardest to place children and Catholic schools were shown by numerous statistical studies to be more ethnically diverse, popular and successful than their secular counterparts.

Whereas, however, only those most closely involved noticed the withdrawal of the church from adoption, it was less easy to hide its withdrawal from opening new schools.

The PM has acted wisely and decisively.

It therefore seems a bit churlish to find fault but I cannot quite award her an A-star.

She must herself be in Cloud Cuckoo Land if she thinks children going to those schools come from families which know no illness, break-up, financial disasters or mental collapse.

Does she really think there are no poor children there? Has she never heard of bursaries? Nevertheless, you have made a pretty impressive start Mrs May. Please continue.