Greening replaced as education secretary following cabinet reshuffle
Damian Hinds has replaced Justine Greening as education secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet reshuffle.
According to the BBC, Greening, the first comprehensive-educated Tory education secretary, refused a switch to the Department for Work and Pensions, and has resigned.
Hinds is a former DWP minister, went to a Catholic grammar school in Altrincham and then studied at the University of Oxford.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42604157
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