By PAUL WAUGH THE Tory row over grammar schools will be reignited at the party's conference later this month as David Cameron faces huge pressure to rethink his policy, the Evening Standard has learned.

This was the simple yet startling fact stated by former shadow minister for Europe, Graham Brady, who courageously resigned from the front bench last week after the Conservative Party failed to back academic selection.

DAVID CAMERON faced the most serious challenge yet to his grammar school policy today after it emerged that a key shadow cabinet minister was defying the party line.

By MICHAEL SETTLE CHIEF UK POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CONSERVATIVE HQ was under siege last night after it was accused of a "humiliating U-turn" on the issue of grammar schools in England.

By Gerri Peev political correspondent DAVID Cameron has been accused of caving in over grammar schools, after senior colleagues admitted more selective schools could be opened in some areas.