There is a growing grumble around Westminster and the education policy community that the schools sector isn’t getting the attention it deserves from politicians.
There are, broadly, two kinds of whinge, depending on your political persuasion:
- Labour – resurgent in the polls – has little policy imagination in education, no great ambition and, importantly offers little on the scale of David Blunkett ahead of the 1997 election or Michael Gove before 2010.
- The Conservatives have been too distracted by Brexit, Covid, the Boris Johnson Moral Bankruptcy and the Liz Truss Car Crash to bother themselves with schools to anything like the same degree as during Gove’s great era of reform.
