Labour must show how buildings aren’t the only way schools are crumbling
Edward Dorrell
Repeatedly claiming a public service is falling apart is a much easier political message to land if it is, literally, crumbling.
This rather obvious point was not lost on shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson and her team over the weekend when they finessed and the repeatedly deployed the line that crumbling concrete in England’s school buildings “was the defining image of 13 years of Conservative-led education”.