Schools 'reopening' - or not - could be quite a big moment for the country. We may be about to test the limits of what a widely distrusted and incompetent Government can achieve by command.
If parents refuse to send children to schools; if headteachers refuse to reopen schools; if teaching unions advise teachers not to turn up; if local authorities advise schools to close and fail to impose fines on parents; what then?
In a State with no meaningful checks on executive power - no higher law, no meaningful second house, a first house collapsing into the executive, a monopolistic state broadcaster... in a State like ours, how does the notion of the consent of the governed express itself?
Government, of course, knows this and I don't think it wants a confrontation it will lose which is why I think we will see it change its position on schools reopening quickly.
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