The two leaders clashed over the issue at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister’s Questions
Mr Sunak said he would “make no apology for acting decisively in the face of new information” in relation to schools, adding the Government is doing “everything it can to fix this quickly and minimise the disruption to children’s education”.But Sir Keir told the House of Commons: “The truth is this crisis is the inevitable result of 13 years of cutting corners, botched jobs, sticking-plaster politics.
“It wasn’t even worthy of a single mention in his so-called landmark speech on education this summer. And if we’d listened to him, our kids would have been off school and locked down for longer.” On school budgets, Mr Sunak added: “Far from cutting budgets, as he alleges, the amount spent last year was the highest in a decade.
Mr Sunak repeated the Government has acted “decisively” on schools and criticised the Labour-led Wales Government for its response.
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