Bradford West MP George Galloway has returned to the attack on Michael Gove and his education ministers, accusing them of having contempt for parliament and resorting to subterfuge and stonewalling over King’s Science Academy.

Specifically he slammed Gove’s claim that Tory party vice-chairman Alan Lewis was a generous benefactor of the free school. “Rather than that he was a substantial beneficiary,” he said. “There is absolutely no evidence that Lewis is taking a reduction in income and the fact that he refuses to publish figures for the site before renting to KSA gives the impression that he has something to hide.”