Labour urges govt to ‘come clean’ over school safety fears
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Labour urges govt to ‘come clean’ over school safety fears
Labour has accused the Department for Education of being “in chaos and disarray” after it told more than 100 schools and colleges to partially or fully close buildings because of fears over concrete which could suddenly collapse.
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “The government has known for years there was a need for action.
They should come clean to parents, publish the full list of all of the schools affected and just get on with it.” Report by Buseld.
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"Shy" Reform voters in Labour areas led to Nigel Farage's party winning the Runcorn by-election by just six votes, Labour peer Harriet Harman said. Sky News
The education secretary says the government is using new technology to work with schools in tackling “persistent absence” by pupils. Bridget Phillipson says the problem has become an “endemic” issue in schools and that “if children aren’t in school, if they’re not in their classroom then they can’t learn”.
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Government ministers arrive in Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting with the prime minister on Tuesday morning. David Lammy, Ed Miliband, John Healey and Bridget Phillipson are seen walking into No 10 ahead of the meeting with Sir Keir Starmer. It comes as the PM defends his decision to cut welfare benefits for working age people.
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Kemi Badenoch says the UK-US trade agreement is "not a huge success at all" and has left Britain in a worse position than it was six weeks ago. The Conservative Party leader adds, "that's why when Labour negotiates Britain loses". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Sir Keir Starmer has paid a visit to HMS St Albans navy frigate in Oslo port, on the fringes of the Joint Expeditionary Force Summit. The prime minister's trip to Norway comes as the government announces its largest ever sanctions package against the Russian Shadow Fleet of oil tankers. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The chancellor says the welfare system "needs reform", as more than 40 MPs have written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urging him to pause and reassess planned cuts to disability benefits. Rachel Reeves adds, "the current levels of people going onto these benefits is not sustainable". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Rachel Reeves has hailed the new UK-US trade deal as being a "good deal" for sectors such as car manufacturing, aerospace, life sciences and steel. The chancellor adds the agreement is a "big improvement from where we were a month ago". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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