Major Reversals Show Government's Weaknesses

On a day when Labour's Scottish election woes might well have dominated politics, the Government has performed a spectacular U-turn on a key policy announced by George Osborne in the Budget. The plan contained in Nicky Morgan's Education White Paper to make all schools into academies has been ditched. Major reversals have become a feature of the running of this Government: tax credits, disability payments, union laws, hunting, short money, Sunday trading, the Dubs amendment on refugee children,