00:00 The truth is that this crisis is the inevitable result of 13 years of cutting corners, botched
00:07 jobs and sticking plaster politics. It is the sort of thing you expect from cowboy builders,
00:14 saying that everyone else is wrong and to blame, and protesting that they have done
00:18 an effing good job, even as the ceiling falls in. The difference is that in this case the
00:26 cowboys are running the country. Is he not ashamed that after 13 years of Tory government
00:34 children are cowering under steel supports, stopping their classroom roof, falling in?
00:43 Before today he never once raised this issue with me in Parliament. It was not even worthy
00:47 of a single mention in his so-called landmark speech on education this summer. If we had
00:54 listened to him, our kids would have been off school and locked down for longer. It
00:58 is as simple as that. He talks about 13 years. Let us see what happened. When we came into
01:03 office, two thirds of school were good and outstanding. Now it is 90%. We introduced
01:10 the pupil premium to get more funding to the most disadvantaged pupils. Today they are
01:16 75% more likely to go to university. As a result of our reforms, we now have the best
01:23 readers in the western world. That is what 13 years of education reform gets you, all
01:30 of which are opposed by the party opposite.
01:32 (audience laughing)
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