Andrew Adonis: Blair's Education Guru

[John Simkin]

Andrew Adonis, Tony Blair’s main adviser on educational policy, has been made a peer (Lord Adonis) and appointed as a junior minister in the Education Department. Adonis was the man behind student tuition fees, the privatisation of school services and city academies. Adonis, a former member of the SDP, is the main reason Estelle Morris resigned from office. Even Ruth Kelly finds him too right-wing and tried to block his appointment.