Labour conference live: Starmer promises to fast-track rape cases and says fighting crime a party priority
by Andrew Sparrow from on (#5Q4D6)
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12.58pm BST
Starmer says the government's catch-up plan for schools is inadequate. Sir Kevan Collins, the education recovery commissioner, resigned because it was so poor, he says.
He says Labour will launch the most ambitious school improvement plan in a generation". (See 9.22am.)
Under Labour education will recover. But education needs to do more than just recover.
It needs to be pointed in the direction I took from my dad. Towards skills. Towards work ...
12.54pm BST
Starmer is now talking about education.
Education is so important I am tempted to say it three times.
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