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Sunday Times 21.09.14 / 7 Gove aide damns Clegg for resisting curbs on school Islamists Richard Kerbaj the deputy prime minister, some schools in Birmingham. an education secretary of rare extremism which, he argues, resignation of May’s special sities must be a key focus,” he to the peaceful religion of Islam Nick Clegg, as a “consistent “Nick Clegg was a consistent moral courage.” has left Britain “as a weak link adviser Fiona Cunningham. writes. “The grotesque spec- than Stalinism did to demo- SECURITY CORRESPONDENT source of opposition”. source of opposition,” Martin Martin’s anger about polit- in the fight against global Martin also suggests an tacle of fascist preachers cratic socialism”. A FORMER aide to Michael Writing in The Sunday claims. “On one remarkable ical correctness hampering terror”. “ingrained culture of appeas- addressing gender-segregated A source close to Clegg said Gove has accused ministers Times,Martin,aspecialadviser occasion in June [he] asked action against extremism fol- The controversy over the ing” resulted in poor decisions audiences in taxpayer-funded the deputy prime minister had and Whitehall officials of who worked alongside the why we were singling out lows similar concerns raised in Trojan Horse affair, which was in Whitehall. He suggests Peter institutions must end.” not heard of Martin and had no trying to block efforts to tackle former education secretary for Islamism above other forms of the wake of the child sex abuse first exposed by The Sunday Clarke, a former anti-terror Martin also laments a failure interest in his views. “He extremism in schools because three years, also suggests extremism. scandal in Rotherham, where Times in February, led to a rift chief at Scotland Yard and the of “our governing elite” to sounds like a former adviser they were “hamstrung by Whitehall mandarins failed to He adds: “We succeeded in abusers of Pakistani descent betweeN Gove and the home maN asked by Gove to investi- tackle Islamism which, he trying to show off and make a political correctness” and co-operate with Gove as he avoiding government’s usual escaped the attention of the secretary Theresa May over the gate the Trojan Horse affair, says, “rejects every tenet of our name for himself now he does- feared being labelled as Islam- sought to tackle the so-called cycle of appeasement and in- authorities. infiltration by Islamists of state should be commissioned to pluralistic society and will not n’t have a job,” the source said. ophobic. Trojan Horse scandal. The action only thanks to an unu- Martin, who left govern- schools. An investigation by leadabroaderinquiryinto pos- compromise on its belief in a Quivering Sir Humphrey Condemning a failure in affair revealed how Muslim sually talented and committed ment in July after Gove became the cabinet secretary Sir sible extremism in schools totalitarian theocracy”. leaves it to parents, government to confront Islam- fundamentalists had sought to civil service team at the Tory chief whip, also criticises Jeremy Heywood into the across the country. He says the extremist ide- Jamie Martin, page 30 ism, Jamie Martin describes impose an Islamist agenda on Department for Education and Muslims for failing to confront fallout ultimately forced the “Islamic societies in univer- ology “bears no more relation @richardkerbaj Nicholas Hellen SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Squeezed incomes Price of four-bedroom School fees IT IS the new inequality, the property in prime per term £100m winter growinggapbetweeNthehaves central London Day school 1989 2013-14 and the have-lots. People Inflation earningbetweeN£160,000and UK increase Increase fuel payouts for £370,000 gross a year are £760 £4,019 struggling to maintain their 1989-2013 429% lifestyle and resentful of those 118% earning even more, according Southeast retirees in sun to a new book. 1989 2014 The “squeezed upper mid- £783 £4,325 Increase dle” have scraped into the £800,000 £5.1m 452% country’s top 1% of earners, Becky Barrow but feel hard done by as they MONEY EDITOR watch the richest in that elite London Increase group leave them behind. Source: Savills MORE than £100m has beeN Danny Dorling, a professor 523% £873 £4,899 Increase spent on winter fuel of geography at Oxford Uni- 461% payments to pensioners versity, who has identified the Mark Simmonds, pictured with his wife, Lizbeth, resigned as a junior living in some of Europe’s phenomenon in his book Ine- Foreign Office minister, complaining he couldn't afford a family life. hottest countries, official quality and the 1%, to be pub- The couple received around £140,000 in income and allowances Boarding for UK figures reveal. lished by Verso this week, said: Record numbers of “It would be very hard to find £1,780 £9,596 Increase pensioners living in sunny someone in London with a 439% spots such as Spain, Cyprus, household income of betweeN Malta and Portugal, are £200,000 and £350,000 who Source: Independent Schools Council receiving the payout, worth told you they felt comfortable, up to £300 a year, despite its and that is remarkable.” purpose being to help the From 2015-2016, the People in the “squeezed elderly with heating bills. government plans to axe upper middle” group of ear- Net household Last night experts payments to pensioners who ners often mistakenly believe income to described the situation as live in those seveN countries they are in the “squeezed enter top 1% “farcical”. — subject to the approval of middle”, even though the The figures, published by MPs. Countries with an Couple, Couple, 2 children, Single average annual UK salary last the Department for Work average winter temperature no children aged 14 and 10 year was £24,596, says Dor- and Pensions, show that higher than the UK’s ling. He adds, however, that £101m of taxpayers’ money warmest region will be they are right to believe they 2012-13 £124,100 £190,300 £82,700 has beeN spent on fuel banned. have lost out — but only by payments since 2005-2006 Ros Altmann, a comparisoNwiththeeliteatthe to pensioners in Gibraltar, government adviser and top of the 1%. The gap betweeN 2009-10 £121,400 £186,200 £80,900 France, Greece, Portugal, leading champion of the the top and bottom of the 1% is Spain, Malta and Cyprus. rights of the elderly, said: In today’s terms £138,300 £212,000 £92,200 much greater than the range The number of pensioners “Winter fuel payments are a across the whole of the re- not living in the UK but still political gimmick. It makes maining 99%. 1989 £42,000 £64,400 £28,000 receiving the handout has little sense to try to identify Peter York, co-founder of jumped to an all-time high countries that are hotter or In today’s terms £91,800 £140,800 £61,200 the SRU management consult- of 139,000, according to colder in winter than others, ancy, and a social commen- figures for 2013-2014. Last because the reality is that tator, said: “People who are Source: Institute for Fiscal Studies winter overseas pensioners many parts of the countries doing very well consider living in countries from that are included are themselves hard done by, as in Norway to Romania were warmer than parts of the London and the southeast they paid a record £21.7m. excluded ones.” are squeezed out of the places JonathaN Isaby, chief At present the payments they want to live, squeezed into executive of the Taxpayers’ are made to pensioners born private services they can’t Alliance campaign group, on or before July 5, 1952, afford and psychologically It’s a struggle to get by said: “It is farcical that hard- including those who do not squeezed by the presence pressed taxpayers are paying live here but have “a genuine nearby of the luxury life.” for sun-kissed pensioners’ link with the UK”. Divyang Mistry, 50, was winter fuel allowance. The A Department for Work earning £200,000 as a director payments should be for and Pensions spokesman of a corporate communications those who need help to get said: “Winter fuel payments firm but decided to change through cold winters, not as are intended to encourage career when he had to borrow on £370,000 a year an extra helping hand for older people in Britain to money from his father to buy a retirees spending Christmas keep themselves warm.” family home in Hertfordshire. on a sun lounger.” @beckymbarrow He realised that so long as he was paying the top rate of tax there would be little money to Dorling, you are also likely much better off than you. As tax,or£200,00ifthey have two Calculations by the Institute themselves to the super-rich, Warm left after school fees for three to resent paying for other Dorlingputsit:“They maybein children. The mean for the top for Fiscal Studies show the and this “sense of grievance” is Total winter fuel Number of children. So he set up a couple people’s education through thetop1%oftheUKbutthey’re 1% is £369,000. Above them in squeezed upper middle have bad for society. front payments* pensioners** of online firms — leesman- your taxes, while paying pri- not in the top 1% of London. the top half per cent are FTSE enjoyed earnings growth in “It matters if you don’t France £29.8m 29,535 index.com and accesssolic- vately for your owN family. Outside London, anyone in the 250 company board directors, the past 25 years well above realise that you’ve never had it itor.com — and said: “Why pay Members of the top half per top 1% nationally is acutely bankers and a few hundred inflation of 118%.
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