内容摘要：The head of the exams body earlier this week defended the poor results, saying they reflected the "true academic abilities" of the students and were because of a clampdown on cheating.

The head of the exams body earlier this week defended the poor results, saying they reflected the "true academic abilities" of the students and were because of a clampdown on cheating.

Louise Haigh was already the first cabinet minister that Sir Keir Starmer, over remarks about P&O Ferries last month.

Now we have the ritual exchange of letters and the ritual blizzard of further questions.and in particular the prime minister’s letter to Haigh, which is blunt in its brevity.Prime ministers often manage to wax lyrical at considerable length in a letter marking a departure, however tortuous or headline-making the whole saga has been.

In this instance, news of the resignation came within 12 hours of the story first breaking, and yet the prime minister’s words appear perfunctory.The general mood in the Labour Party and in government is one of slight bafflement.

Many were still getting their head around the revelations – which first appeared on Sky News and in The Times on Thursday evening - when they woke up this morning to the news that Haigh was gone.

Plenty believe the sequence of events described in Haigh’s account was too minor to necessitate her departure, in the absence of any further revelations, though some believe she made the right political decision to go quickly rather than allow the issue to drag on for days.who was convicted of breaching a safe zone after praying outside an abortion centre and refusing to move on.

The vice-president then added: "I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off, crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person."But no. This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law."

Vance then claimed the government had urged people to report people "guilty of thought crime".The Scottish government said Vance was "incorrect" with his comments, which were