“Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.”

—  Tony Blair

"Mr Blair opts out", Guardian, 2 December 1994. Statement on 1 December 1994, defending his decision to send his eldest son Euan to the London Oratory School which had opted out of local education authority control under a policy which the Labour Party opposed.
1990s

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