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Fraser has a great piece in this week's magazine on the Tories' education plans. Readers will know I have my problems with David Cameron, but if the Conservatives are serious about implementing Michael Gove's 'Swedish model' policy - and there's nothing to suggest they are not - then that alone is a good reason to vote Conservative next time round.
As Fraser writes: The Prime Minister is known to take a dim view of all this. Choice, he argues, means the maintenance of surplus places which he equates with waste. Yet the irony is that his profligate spending has made the Tory voucher scheme possible: education spending is so high that funding per pupil is now sufficient to make it desirable to set up a school. And there are plenty of Blairite ministers who privately concede that Mr Cameron is right.