Michael Gove was fighting on two fronts today after being accused of blocking sex education reform and hypocrisy over the “bedroom tax”.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg claimed the Education Secretary was holding back reforms intended to help teenagers cope with the “explosion” in online porn.
Mr Clegg said he wanted all schools to stick to new sex education guidelines but had not been able to persuade the Tories.
Mr Gove responded by saying his department had decided it was better to provide teachers with resources to shape sex education lessons themselves.
The Education Secretary was later taking questions at an event when he said: “There are children, poor children, who do not have rooms of their own in which to do their homework, in which to read, in which to achieve their full potential.”
Labour MP Gareth Thomas accused him of double standards, as the Government’s new welfare rules mean that children under 16 in social housing must share a bedroom if their family does not want its housing benefit reduced.
