Such hesitancy vanished when Mr Collins took the stage. But did his conference speech betray a desire for a more senior post in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet? Mr Collins won wave after wave of applause - but not just for his education policies. Indeed, a quarter of his speech had nothing at all to do with education, concentrating instead on tax, crime and Europe.
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