I was appalled Tony Blair decided to make his election announcement and speech from a school.

As acknowledged by all the media, it was a totally stage-managed and choreographed performance dreamt up by the Labour spin doctors.

It was an election speech intended for adults, with no thought given to the children who had to listen to it.

No wonder some of the staff at St Saviour's and St Olave's School in south London were so upset.

They know they were just being cynically exploited for political purposes.

They also know many Labour politicians go to great lengths not to send their own children to similar comprehensive schools.

To use pupils as a backdrop for Mr Blair's electioneering is a total disgrace.

-Coun Vanessa Brown, opposition spokesman for education, Brighton and Hove City Council