Shadow education secretary Michael Gove has accepted former party leader Iain Duncan Smith's recommendations to encourage "pioneer schools".
"We will remove the administrative obstacles that prevent charities, churches, voluntary groups and others from providing the new schools parents want and children need," Gove said.
But Steve Sinnott, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said Gove's proposals to "let anyone" open a school were "off beam".
"His aim of ending division between rich and poor will be scuppered by those who know how to play the game of school choice at the expense of poorer parents who don't have the knowledge or inclination to spend days hunting down the schools they want," he said.
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