In his Schools Week interview Young talked of having been "very critical of England's public education system under the last Labour government", and yet had done so without having "grasped how difficult it is to do better, and to bring about system-wide improvement".
Young hit the headlines this summer when he stepped down as chief executive of the school's trust, after admitting: "I was very critical of England's public education system under the last Labour government, and I hadn't grasped how difficult it is to do better, and to bring about system-wide improvement".
Next time, with international observers in place and the NLD fully engaged, that will be much more difficult: if the army wants to do better than merely hang on to the 25 per cent of MPs granted it by the constitution, it will have to follow Shwe Mann's lead and think up astute ways of making itself popular.
"Obviously it's going to be unbelievably difficult, but we've got to do better than we've done today".
"It was always going to be a difficult one but we have to do better with the ball.
"Obviously it's going to be unbelievably difficult but we've got to do better than we have done," he said.
In their article, Balls and Alexander said: "Every country across Europe, including Britain, is having to make difficult decisions about spending - trying to do better with less.
Yet even under these difficult circumstances, we have an opportunity to do better — for people with mental illness, their families and the people charged with their care.
And I know it's difficult, but you can really strive to do better, as well as also just not judge a book by its cover.
It's difficult at this level but we need to do better, create more chances and try to bury them.
