Tory backlash over plans to lower 11-plus standards for poor students

Leaked Government proposals that would see grammar schools being forced to offer lower 11-plus pass marks to poorer children has provoked a backlash among Conservative MPs.Tory backbenchers have told The Sunday Telegraph that such a policy would be a "mistake" and threatens to undermine the ethos of selective education.Earlier this week it emerged that under new plans, grammars could be compelled to increase their intake of deprived children, as part of a new offensive to counter criticism that