Prime minister is risking basic right to an education, says children’s tsar

Tory pressure grows for a teaching plan amid fears that reduced schooling is becoming default'

Boris Johnson was accused of putting children's basic right to education at risk last night, as he faced a mounting chorus of pleas to unveil an unprecedented emergency programme for England's pupils.

With growing frustration among teachers, MPs and unions over the chaotic return of schools, Anne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, warned there was a very dangerous" threat to the historic right to guaranteed education.

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