The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chancellor in my first Spending Review in 2020 was to announce a new ten year School Rebuilding programme for 500 schools. Now, that equates to about 50 schools a year that will be refurbished or rebuilt. And if you look at what weve been doing over the previous decade, thats completely in line with what weve always done. This Secondary School in County Durham was meant to open for the new term tomorrow, but it cant because of dangerous concrete. In both 2020 and 2021, the government promised 50 schools a year would be rebuilt. In 2019, the National Au
A type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. Meanwhile, in the last couple of hours another twist with the Education Secretary caught on camera voicing herfrustrations about the media coverage. This is Gillian Keegan after an interview with itv news. Does anyone ever say, you have done a good job cos everyone else has sat on thei and done nothing . No signs of that, no . The footage was captured by itv news as the Camera Repositioned for extra shots at the end of an interview with the minister, while she was still wearing her microphone. Gillian keegan has apologised for those remarks. Gillian keegan, you said everyone else had sat on their backsides which suggests you think people had been pulling their weight, who are you talking about . It was nobody in particular, it was an off the cuff remark after the News Interview had finished or apparently after it had finished. I would like to apologise for my choice language there. That was unnecessary. But it was an off the c
Welcome to the daily global bringing you the top stories from Around The World. We begin with the situation in the disputed region for the number of Ethnic Armenians leaving the territory is rising and more than 28,000 people, 20 of the regions population have now crossed into armenia. Americas top eight official since their testimonies are harrowing. Cement the calls for International Access to the area and speaking of the Armenian Border, is it injured people still and Nagorno Karabakh need help. The us will get nearly 12 million step of with refugees in armenia possible to stop him entering Officials Say they fear Ethnic Cleansing by the new azerbaijan controlled forces of the red cross says after a deadly explosion on monday night, at least 20 people died. Armenian separatists say of the 300 people are in hospital and samantha said this today. It hospital and samantha said this toda. ,. , hospital and samantha said this toda. Today. It is absolutely critical that independent today.
Georgia stanway gifted danielle the ball. At every play showed off side. No var to overturn it though. Alessia russo then got the equaliser for england and the second half. 11 minutes left in that game. As you can see, the other results. Wales v denmark. Denmark opened the scoring through an early Pernille Harder penalty. The Republic Of Ireland for nail up in Manchester United have begun the defence of their carabao cup trophy, in an all Premier League tie against crystal palace. Thats one of seven games going on tonight. Goalless at old trafford 2 0 at old trafford. Wolves to all against Championship High flyers ipswich. All of the details on all of the gains by heading to the bbc sport website. The excitiment is building in rome ahead of the ryder cup which gets started on friday. Team europe will be looking to extend their home record and win the cup back from the usa. They were out on the course on Tuesday Morning for the traditional photocall theyll be looking to reclaim the silv
In 2016 donald trump carried michigan with the support of the car workers. Today it wasjoe biden who stood alongside them, the most pro Union President , he said, in american history. But does he support their calls for a four day week, and how will he resolve a strike in its 11th day, that costing the us economy billions of dollars . We will get the thoughts on that and the impending Government Shutdown from our panel this evening in Washingtonjoel Rubin former advisor to the Us State Department and on this side, the conservative commentator and columnist tim montgomerie. Its hsz, the High Speed Rail Linke that weighs on rishi sunak. But if he scraps it where does that leave the plan for levelling up. Leave the plan for levelling up . Well hearfrom one engineer tonight who worked on the project who thinks phase 2 should be dropped. Good evening. It is without precedent. A sitting us president joining a picket line. Joe biden was in michigan today to visit the workers striking against