Sajid Javid to focus on skills in budget to hold on to ex-Labour seats

Chancellor expected to fund broken FE colleges in effort to ‘level up’ country

Sajid Javid will make skills a central theme of his March budget as the government seeks to cement its electoral hold on former Labour heartlands by emphasising its post-Brexit plan to “level up” the country.

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