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Sunak refused to fully fund repairs of England’s crumbling schools, says ex-official (www.theguardian.com)

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Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels, the Department for Education’s former head civil servant has said.

After the department told Sunak’s Treasury that there was a need to rebuild 300 to 400 schools a year in England, he gave funding for only 100, which was then halved to 50, said Jonathan Slater, the permanent secretary of the department from 2016 to 2020.

Conservative ministers more widely believed a greater funding priority was to build new free schools, Slater told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday, as pupils returned to many schools in England for the new term.

“For me as an official, it seemed that should have been second to safety,” Slater said. “But politics is about choices. And that was a choice they made.”

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Labour should be all over this, and not just Sunak. You can trace a direct line between Tory cuts over the last decade to this sort of thing. Hammer the party, not just the leader. Especially with the way things are going, half of them don't even want him there for the GE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why bother when the media are doing the job for them. Labour just need to be keeping a list so they can bring all this stuff back up come election time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No one is doing more to ensure a labour victory at the next election than the conservative party.

The thing is though, we crossed the inevitable line about 3 years ago. So now it would be nice if they could be at least be borderline competent on their way out. At the very least stop making things worse. E.g. The Online Safety Bill

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah as much as Sunak an objectionable character the problem is then Tories. After all Sunak wasn't in charge when the schools were constructed and signed off on.

To be honest presumably that would be Cameron's fault.