A former Labour minister has withdrawn her son from a so-called flagship city academy in protest at its "appalling" standards, reports said.
Karen Buck said she had been "torn apart" by a "personal dilemma" over withdrawing her 13-year-old son Kosmo from Paddington City Academy in London, but denied hypocrisy.
She is the first Labour MP to take a child out of a city academy and her decision is a blow for Tony Blair's flagship city academies project.
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