Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer clashed over education recovery and foreign aid at today’s PMQs, with Starmer warning the government’s education plans could “hold Britain back for a generation”.
The heated exchange came after the government’s education recovery tsar Sir Kevan Collins resigned in protest at government plans to allocate an extra £1.4bn for school catch-up programmes – just a tenth of what he had advised.
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