Karen released a statement signed by over 60 MPs over the position of Tony Blair’s premiership. This was later re-inforced when the Prime Minister visited local school Quintin Kynaston.

Karen’s statement in the Guardian newspaper:

We welcome the clarification, given this morning by David Milliband, that there will be a stable and orderly transition leading to a new leader being in place by conference 2007. This gives the party the certainty it needs. We must now end damaging speculation about the leadership and turn our full attention to building a progressive future for our country.

Read the New Statesman article on the issue

Paddington Academy - one of three new schools for north Westminster

We stand poised on the edge of the most dramatic series of changes in education provision that has occurred in Central London for decades. Next week, two new academy schools open their doors as replacements for North Westminster Community School. Although not quite yet in their final homes, which are due for completion in the next few months, the Paddington and Westminster Academies will nonetheless start now in offering pupils a new approach to learning, under new leadership. Backed by the £25 million in investment in each new school, the Academies give us a fantastic opportunity to realise the potential of thousands of local children, many from extremely deprived backgrounds. Nor are these two schools the end of the story. New academies are also planned for Church Street, and to provide a fresh start for Burlington Danes, on Wormwood Scrubs, which a number of local children attend.
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