This being a family newspaper, I’m afraid I can’t relay what my 18-year-old daughter said when I told her Gavin Williamson had been knighted. Suffice to say it was not language becoming of a young lady. At a time when we have
Downing Street has acknowledged former education secretary Gavin Williamson’s knighthood is hard to justify and appears ‘corrupt’ amid fury over the honour. It was announced on Thursday afternoon that the Queen has conferred the honour on the Tory MP, who has twice been
Tories sniped at Boris Johnson for handing Gavin Williamson a knighthood today saying he ‘knows where the bodies are buried’. Downing Street revealed last night that the former Education Secretary has been given the political honour, despite twice being sacked from the Government. Mr Williamson
Fury as former education secretary Gavin Williamson is handed a KNIGHTHOOD after overseeing catastrophic Covid exams bungle and twice being sacked from the Government Downing Street revealed he had been given a knighthood this afternoon Williamson was axed last September in Cabinet reshuffle amid
The end of masks in the classroom as ministers defy teaching unions and plan to end compulsory covering-up from May 17 The measure will be removed by step three of the roadmap out of lockdown Boris Johnson is expected to make the
Gavin Williamson said secondary school pupils will not have to wear face masks under rule changes expected on May 17. Students in year seven and above have to wear masks in communal areas and classrooms where one-metre social distancing cannot be maintained. Now,
Gavin Williamson ‘is pleading with Boris to make him chief whip’ in reshuffle as Tory MPs brand him a ‘failure’ who should be ‘forgotten’ MPs convinced Gavin Williamson is pushing to become chief whip in reshuffle Mark Spencer is believed to want
The Covid-generation of home-schooled children lacked ‘discipline and order’ while stuck at home during lockdown, says Gavin Williamson. The Education Secretary has backed a mobile phones ban in schools, saying it is ‘now time to put the screens away’ as the return to classrooms
New head of £20,000-a-year Alleyn’s School in London calls for an end to the ‘gender wars’ after 11,000 claims of sex abuse were made on Everyone’s Invited More than 11,000 testimonies have been uploaded to Everyone’s Invited website Education Secretary suggests schools
School day should be extended starting in disadvantaged areas to help pupils catch up on lost learning and take part in more physical and cultural activities, says landmark race report Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities recommended extending school day It said