As Parliament reopens for the Queen’s speech, all eyes are on whether the Prime Minister can secure a deal with his counterparts in Brussels to exit the European Union by the end of October. If he cannot get the backing from both the UK Parliament and the EU, a general election could be called within a matter of days.
The party conferences offered parties one final opportunity to set out their priorities for education before potentially committing them into their manifestos ahead of an election. And Labour were certainly in pre-election mode. Beneath their headline-grabbing pledge to close down all private schools were other interesting proposals to reinvigorate Sure Start through creating a ‘Sure Start Plus’ model and to introduce free early education for all two- to four-year-olds.
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