The faculty which launched the Reeves sisters into politics would fail below Labour reforms, declare Tories | EUROtoday

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The faculty which educated chancellor Rachel Reeves and her sister, the Labour chair Ellie Reeves, would have been held again by the reforms the federal government launched this week, the Tories have claimed.

A row has damaged out after Ellie Reeves tweeted about Tory chief Kemi Badenoch visiting her old-fashioned – beforehand named Cator Park School for Girls, now Harris Girls’ Academy in Lewisham – to make her case for why adjustments launched by training secretary Bridget Phillipson this week have been mistaken.

Ms Phillipson in impact eliminated lots of the impartial powers of academies and free colleges which had been credited for remodeling requirements in England whereas different components of the UK together with Labour-run Wales and SNP-run Scotland have been held again.

Ms Badenoch stated on her journey to the varsity: “Labour’s Schools Bill is a piece of educational vandalism. It will lead to pay cuts for good teachers, lower education outcomes and reduce parental choice.

“I visited the Harris Girls’ Academy in Beckenham to see the reality of the successful reforms the Conservatives brought in for schools. Sadly, it is students like these that will suffer the most from Labour’s disastrous bill, sacrificed on the altar of ideology.”

Badenoch and Trott visit Harris Academy School for Girls

Badenoch and Trott go to Harris Academy School for Girls (Conservative Party)

But a livid Ms Reeves tweeted: “This really sticks in the craw. Kemi visited my old school yesterday. I don’t remember the Tories caring about Cator Park girls when I was there in the 90s when we had lessons in huts & not enough books to go round. Completely hypocritical to pretend that they care now.”

But shadow training secretary Laura Trott, who accompanied Ms Badenoch to the varsity, hit again arguing that it was a Tory-led authorities and its reforms which had handled the very points raised by the Labour Party chair.

Responding to Ms Reeves’ complaints, she stated: “The opposite is true. It was the Harris Academy chain which turned this school around. It was taken over in 2011, under the Conservatives. It is exactly this type of turnaround that Labour’s Schools Bill is putting at risk.”

Ellie and Rachel Reeves

Ellie and Rachel Reeves (Getty Images)

When she spoke to The Independent final September, Ms Reeves described how the varsity had been liable for each her and her sister coming into politics.

Rachel Reeves had entered the varsity mock election in 1992 aged 13 with Ellie, then 12, as her marketing campaign supervisor giving them each the bug for politics.

Ms Reeves stated: “I can remember the 1992 general election, and we were at school, and they had a mock election. Rachel put herself forward for this mock election, and I was her campaign manager… She put me in charge of the leaflets, stickers and things like that to give out.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reeves-badenoch-labour-school-reforms-b2677961.html