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Robert Halfon, the Tory chairman of the Commons education select committee, said the government has serious questions" to answer over its handling of exam results this summer.

Speaking to the BBC's PM programme, he said:

I had hoped that they would have developed with Ofqual what I call a Ronseal-type appeal system - that does what it says on the tin', that was clear, that was easy to understand, that was fair, that every pupil should have been able to appeal via their headteacher if they had felt their grade was unfair.

I would also have hoped that Ofqual would have gone around to the schools explaining about their standardisation process. None of this happened and there clearly need to be serious questions asked about what on earth has gone on.