Bradford West MP George Galloway has returned to the attack on Michael Gove and his education ministers, accusing them of having contempt for parliament and resorting to subterfuge and stonewalling over King’s Science Academy.

PRESS RELEASE 20.02.14

Galloway accuses education ministers of contempt

Bradford West MP George Galloway has returned to the attack on Michael Gove and his education ministers, accusing them of having contempt for parliament and resorting to subterfuge and stonewalling over King’s Science Academy.

Specifically he slammed Gove’s claim that Tory party vice-chairman Alan Lewis was a generous benefactor of the free school. “Rather than that he was a substantial beneficiary,” he said. “There is absolutely no evidence that Lewis is taking a reduction in income and the fact that he refuses to publish figures for the site before renting to KSA gives the impression that he has something to hide.”

He went on: “I have demanded that Gove come to the House and apologise for his department’s mishandling of the KSA fiasco. It beggars belief that the department took no notes when they informed Action Fraud about the alleged fraud. And they are refusing to obtain the recording made by Action Fraud which could then be put into the public domain. Instead we have had bromides and stonewalling and attempting to hide behind the ongoing police investigation. In any other circumstances heads would be rolling.”

Galloway also attacked education minister David Laws speech in a parliamentary debate on KSA. “He was contemptuous and contemptible in what should have been a serious debate. By contrast my parliamentary colleague David Ward delivered a forensic critique of the serial failures.”