Official confirmation:

"The Prime Minister has concluded that there is a need for fresh official leadership at the Department for Education. Jonathan Slater has therefore agreed that he will stand down on 1 September, in advance of the end of his tenure in Spring 2021." https://t.co/pgDTBghUzf

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) August 26, 2020

Ie given politicians had sign off, if culpability is now being sought, it can’t solely be with officials. Indeed, they were asked by politicians to design a system which would standardise this year’s results with previous years’. In many ways, that was the original folly.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 26, 2020