LEFT-WING Labour Euro-MP Michael Hindley today found himself at the centre of a Harriet Harman-style education row after the Lancashire Evening Telegraph revealed that he sends his daughter to a grant-maintained grammar school.

The Lancashire South MEP, who lives in Great Harwood, sends his 14-year-old daughter Agnieszka to Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, a selective school outside Hyndburn.

The school, which Mr Hindley himself attended, recently topped the league table in Lancashire because of its superb exam results.

Mr Hindley is a member of the left-wing Campaign group whose members at Westminster have led the calls for Mrs Harman to resign because she has sent her son to St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, Kent, instead of to a comprehensive school in Southwark where she lives.

But Mr Hindley today had nothing to say about his daughter's schooling, saying it was no-one else's business.

"What happens to my family is not a matter for public discussion.

The decision has infuriated some Labour MPs. One senior party member, who did not want to be named, said: "I am delighted he has been exposed."

Blackburn's Jack Straw, who sends his children to comprehensives, said: "All parents have difficult choices under the Tories' flawed education system."

However, Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans immediately hit out at the MEP, sarcastically praising his "principled stand" in favour of his child's education.

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