Brown Protester's Son has Not Been Turned Down for Chosen School-- Yet

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WHEN Ben Butterworth confronted the Prime Minister about his struggle to find a place for his son in a good local primary school, millions of parents around the country empathised with his situation.

The company director, who accosted Gordon Brown as he left a meeting in Central London, shouted: 'Can you tell me why my children can't get into the state schools of their choice in our area?' The pictures, shown live on TV, were an embarrassment for Labour on only the second day of the General Election campaign and an indication of the rage felt by one in ten parents who cannot get their offspring into their preferred primary school.

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Brown Protester's Son has Not Been Turned Down for Chosen School-- Yet

But Mr Butterworth's story - at first appearing as an all-too- familiar tale of the Government's failure to invest in schools - is not qu...

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