Rishi Sunak denies cutting budgets for school repairs as list of concrete-risk schools revealed

Facing what was always going to be a tricky PMQs, Rishi Sunak performed much better than might have been expected in his exchanges withand at times he was even ahead. But it was also hopeless. Both assessments can be true at that same time.

And – perhaps the most serious charge – halving the school repair budget as chancellor? Sunak insisted the money he set aside for school maintenance and rebuilding in his spending review as chancellor represented a 20% increase on the years before. Starmer was articulating what people think. Whether that’s what most people think or just what many people think does not really matter, because it’s what enough people think . So he won.

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