Here’s Labour’s criticism of the Tory “build lots of unnecessary but ideologically-correct ‘independent’ state schools” policy, as seen regularly on News 24 today:

[Lord Andrew] Adonis claimed the Tories were merely copying Labour policy…

[“Tory plan to make schools follow academy model“, Education Guardian, 19th November 2007]

Look up Wikipedia for “City Academy“, however, and

The city academy programme was originally based on the programme of City Technology Colleges (CTCs) created by the Conservative government in the 1980s, which were also business-sponsored.

City Academies were a rebranding of a Tory policy, and as such Labour should really be very careful in criticising on this area. They aren’t, of course; fools.