The school concrete scandal is the price we pay for Tory neglect

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If we had anything like the financial commitment offered to education under Labour, none of this would happen (PA Wire)

The fact that the education minister, Nick Gibb, is openly admitting that more classrooms could face collapsing because of dodgy concrete simply underlines the price being paid for years of Tory neglect and austerity.

At a time when educational funding should at least have been ringfenced, what we are now seeing is another fine mess the Tories have got us into.

If we had anything like the financial commitment offered to education under Labour, as is so regularly set out by shadow schools minister Stephen Morgan, none of this would happen.