‘I didn’t start it’: Starmer apologises for ‘six seven’ uproar during school visit

Prime minister jokes that he may be put in detention' after appearing to encourage classroom hysterics

It has become the bane of many parents' and teachers' existence: children bleating out six seven" for apparently no reason.

So parents of pupils at Welland Academy in Peterborough will be unimpressed to discover that none other than the prime minister was encouraging their youngsters in the viral phenomenon.