
Robert Halfon: Without a strong local councillor base, we are nothing as a Party. We forget our councillors at our peril.
It really worries me when coming elections are discussed only in terms of the future of the party leadership.
It really worries me when coming elections are discussed only in terms of the future of the party leadership.
The Industrial Revolution wrought enormous change, enriching the country and its people. It was a force for global good and thank goodness for it.
Decision-makers are merely trying to appease those who would rather keep schools closed.
By using sugar tax funds, it could greatly alleviate some of the difficulties in schools across the country.
Students need skills like resilience, financial education, oracy and teamwork to secure jobs and thrive in employment.
As a Committee Chair, you can campaign for the things you believe in, speak to the media more freely – and still get things done.
The term pits one group against another and does more to damage race relations than enhance them.
The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?
Too much learning has been lost, and too many children will find their educational outcomes affected, to simply return to business as usual.
Children’s opportunities in life will suffer as a result of school closures – and there still hasn’t been much data to explain why they were needed.
The Chair of the Education Select Committee presses the Secretary of State on access to technology, assessment, and vaccination for school staff.
There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.
The Government’s own calculations of welfare payments do not cost in the provision of a healthy diet.
Dr Meadows said that all sorts of trials had taken place. The point is: why not this one, which would have allowed problems to be identified in advance?
Starmer has been scathing about Williamson’s U-turn. But what right does he have to criticise?