Keir Starmer has vowed to break the “class ceiling” as he laid out his vision to boost poorer children’s education and tackle “the pernicious idea that background equals destiny.”
Speaking alongside Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, at MidKent College in Gillingham, the Labour leader delivered his fifth and final “mission”: raising education standards.
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