Truancy: blame the liberals

26th September 2003, 1:00am

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Truancy: blame the liberals

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Education minister Ivan Lewis hit out yesterday at “weak liberals” who he claimed had allowed truancy to go unchallenged. Mr Lewis told a conference in London on reducing exclusions and truancy that “weak liberals have preached compassion and practised neglect”.

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