Ever since David Blunkett said "I'm desperately trying to avoid the whole debate in education concentrating on the issue of selection when it should be concentrating on the raising of standards. Arguments about selection are a past agenda."(2000) our parties policy on the future of the existence of grammar schools seems to have taken a back-seat. Whilst I shall not argue that the regurgitation of this debate will be beneficial to the fortunes of the national party, but I wondered, as a new member to this site, what other members believe the next step (if there ever is one) on this issue should be.