When Labour won the 2024 general election, many of my fellow teachers were delighted. After fourteen years of one Conservative or another occupying Downing Street, they felt that finally ‘the right people’ were in power.
Ten months later, their excitement has turned to despair. Promise after promise has evaporated. The jubilant attitude in staff rooms around Britain has been replaced by a kind of exhausted bewilderment as the effects of the government’s economic illiteracy start to bite.
Keir Starmer is quickly discovering that governing is not the same as protesting
Keir Starmer is quickly discovering that governing is not the same as protesting. Making quick pay deals may have appeased the unions, but it did huge damage to public finances, even before the capital and labour flight caused by the Government’s tax policies.
Having run out of other people’s money so soon, Labour has speedily closed down maths and computing hubs in state schools as well as Latin excellence programmes.
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