A Promise the Liberal Democrats were for once Right to Break

One promise that the Liberal Democrats were right to break was their opposition to the ARK Academy in Wembley. Of course, they were wrong to oppose the ARK Academy to begin with.

Back in 2006, the Liberal Democrats fought the election on a pledge not to build a school on the site Labour had selected near Wembley Park Tube station. Once elected they formed a coalition with the Tories. This coalition held a review of the possible sites for building a school. After 15 months, it reported back that they would build on the Wembley Park site (Although the Tories continued to oppose this). The review didn't turn up any information that was not already known in early 2006. It just delayed the start of building by at least a year. Now Cllr Bob Wharton and Sarah Teather MP are going round lamenting the fact that Brent is desperately short of school places, when their delay of the new school has been a major contributor to that problem.