So we want to move on from Labour's ongoing debate about how best to ration the current schoolplaces, and instead focus on how best to create moregoodschoolplaces.
The second weakness is that although the report recognises that expanding the supply of goodschoolplaces is more important than allocating existing ones, it does not come up with much to help new providers set up schools.
"Good schools should be able to grow and we need more of them, " he said, having argued earlier in the week that allowing popular schools to expand more easily would increase the amount of goodschoolplaces.