British lawmakers headed back to Parliament on Monday after their summer break
. But thousands of U.K. children won’t be returning to their classrooms this week, because their schools areThe news is a start-of-term headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he scrambles to shore up flagging support for the governing Conservative Party ahead of a national election next year.
The government says the total number of affected schools is likely to be in the hundreds but not the thousands. A former senior civil servant in the education department, Jonathan Slater, said Monday that in 2021 Sunak, who was then Britain’s Treasury chief, had halved the number of schools to be refurbished each year from 100 to 50 – far fewer than the 300 to 400 Slater said were needed.
Labour Party education spokeswoman Bridget Phillipson said the government was “still not being upfront about the scale of what we are facing” and “ministers need to get a grip on this.”with a promise to restore steady government after his predecessor, Liz Truss, rocked the economy with a plan for big, unfunded tax cuts.
Starmer took over in 2020 from left-winger Jeremy Corbyn, who led Labour to two election defeats. Starmer has tried to nudge the party back toward the political center ground it occupied under former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair is Labour’s most successful leader, winning three successive elections starting in 1997, but remains a controversial figure in the party, vilified by some for watering down Labour’s socialist values and joining the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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