In a damning verdict on Labour's education legacy, Ofsted denied claims made by the previous Government that the watchdog rated England's teaching workforce as the best ever.

Suffice to say, the Treasury Select Committee did not look so kindly on such undertakings in its damning verdicts last August.

Historian David Harris Willson, in his 1956 biography of James, delivered this damning verdict: "Anne had little influence over her husband.

He does not pass comment on the allegations, made in court by Shoesmith's lawyers, that drafts of that inspection report were progressively "beefed up" to produce a damning verdict.

There have been many damning verdicts on Nicholas's rule and legacy.

As Gordon Brown clung on to power, his biographer Anthony Seldon delivers his damning verdict on our flawed prime minister.

It closed in 1998, following a "damning verdict on the [...] accommodation, management and curriculum".

That was the damning verdict of the media.

Tim Robey gives his damning verdict.

In 2002 Class War: The State of British Education, a damning verdict on the systemic failures of British education, was published.