She has been criticised for her comments
Prime Ministerial hopeful Liz Truss has claimed Leeds City Council “cared more about political correctness” than teaching English and maths when she was at school in the city.
Ms Truss has made similarly scathing comments about her education in Leeds before, including earlier on in the leadership contest in July, when she claimed standards were “poor” at the school.Critics later accused her of misrepresenting the area, in north-east Leeds, and the school itself. But speaking at an LBC event on Wednesday night, Ms Truss doubled down, saying: “What I saw at my school, is I saw some children being let down.
“They were let down by a lack of opportunity in the area and I thought that waste of talent was wrong.”But Labour’s MP for Leeds North East, Fabian Hamilton, accused Ms Truss of trying to throw the school “under the bus” and noted that she went onto Oxford University after attending the secondary. The school was rated ‘satisfactory’ by Ofsted during Ms Truss’ time there. It is now rated ‘outstanding’.
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