Estelle Morrismay regret using the political world's favourite metaphor about A-levels - that they are the "gold standard" which "mustn't be devalued".
There are moments in politics where opinion reaches a critical mass and Estelle Morrismay have fuelled that this morning by announcing an inquiry not just into what went wrong with this year's A-level grades but into the whole question of whether A-levels are "not what they used to be".
