exam results for English pupils. The shambles comes one week after the Scottish Government became the first of four UK administrations to bow to mounting pressure and scrap downgraded results.
Johnson and English education secretary Gavin Williamson had defended their own "robust" system, criticised the SNP and promised they would not follow suit.
Today Williamson admitted: "It is clear that the process of allocating grades has resulted in more significant inconsistencies than can be resolved through an appeals process.
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