Maria Hutchings, the Tory candidate within the Eastleigh byelection have been widely criticised for seeming to indicate that her son was too intelligent to visit state school.
Hutchings hopes to interchange the Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne, who resigned his seat after pleading guilty to perverting the process justice earlier this month.
According to the Daily Mirror, Hutchings said on Friday: “William [her son] is especially gifted which supplies us another interesting challenge find the best type of education for him – impossible within the state system. He desires to be a cardio-respiratory surgeon.”
The newest Ofsted reports for plenty of Eastleigh schools, including Thornden, Wildern and Toynbee high schools, have found them to be “outstanding”.
Her comments caused a storm on Twitter where hundreds of folks tweeted their professions and the truth that they were state educated to contradict Hutchings’ assertion.
Labour candidate John O’Farrell said: “Ten years ago, after I was all in favour of the shortcoming of suitable local schools, I organised with other parents to establish a brand new non-selective state school.
“My very own children went there and that i served as chair of governors for eight years. Maria Hutchings claims to ‘get things done’ – but clearly the alternative is right,” he told the Daily Mirror. “All she’s shown is that she’s just as out of touch because the remainder of the Conservative party, whether on education, tax cuts for millionaires or trebling tuition fees.”
