DAVID CAMERON has spoken of his joy on hearing his daughter Nancy has won a place at a state secondary school from September.

The 11-year-old will attend the Grey Coat Hospital school in Westminster, which was founded in 1698 and is now a Church of England academy.

Mr Cameron becomes the first Conservative prime minister to send a child to a state secondary school. His decision to accept a place at Grey Coat Hospital, close to Downing Street, is likely to be seen as an indication of his confidence that he will remain in Number 10 after May’s general election.

At a campaign event in Harrow, west London, yesterday, Mr Cameron said: “Under this Government we have got a million more children in good or outstanding schools.

“I’m the parent of three children at London state schools and I know how much it means to have a good school for your child.

“We heard this week about where Nancy is going next.

“It’s a wonderful moment when you’ve had that agony of waiting and then the joy of finding out that you have got a good school place for your child, their friends are going there, they are happy.

“I want that for every parent in our country, and that’s what we are going to build in the next parliament.”

The Prime Minister attended Eton and his wife Samantha went to Marlborough College, but Mr Cameron follows his former education secretary Michael Gove in sending his daughter to Grey Coat Hospital, which was rated “outstanding” in its latest Ofsted inspection.

Nancy was among hundreds of thousands of children who found out this week whether they had got into their choice of school.

Grey Coat Hospital admits girls aged 11 to 18, with 151 places allocated for this year’s intake. Boys are admitted only to the sixth form.

A total of 116 places in this year’s intake are reserved for girls from practising church families, preferably with attendance for at least 40 weeks a year for the previous five years. Up to 15 places were available to pupils showing an aptitude for languages, and there were 20 open places.

It is not clear on what basis Nancy has been admitted, but it has been reported that Mr Cameron is understood to have been paying regular private visits to worship at a London church, often on weekday mornings, for several years.