‘Hot Mic’ Gillian’s dumbest announcement yet

Under-fire education secretary Gillian Keegan wants you to know ’most schools are unaffected’ by the concrete crisis. Good grief, minister, ‘most’ doesn’t really cut it when it comes to keeping children safe, writes Tom Peck

Who needs a balloon full of laughing gas to have a fit of the hysterics when you have the news? (REUTERS)

Collectors of incidents involving education secretary Gillian Keegan are finding their lives getting easier and easier. On Monday, we had to wait until after lunch for her to demand to know why no one is telling her what a “f*****g good job” she is doing, with regard to the closure of hundreds of schools that have been declared unsafe.

Twenty four hours later, or more accurately, merely 21 hours, she was at it again. For reasons only she can truly understand, she has now put out a short statement on social media, complete with little infographics in Tory party colours but with the Department for Education branding, which is already at least partly dubious behaviour.

The point she has chosen to stress, with regard to the very real risk that concrete classrooms could collapse on children’s heads, is that “MOST SCHOOLS UNAFFECTED”. It was right there – she even put it in capitals.