Rift over alleged diversion of £400m to free schools

From the Guardian/Observer: '...Lib Dems confirmed highly damaging leaked information from a senior government source, who said that Gove had secretly taken the money from the Basic Need fund for local authorities last December, in the face of stiff opposition from the Lib Dem schools minister David Laws...According to the coalition insider, the £400m would be enough to fund 30,000 new school places...