Keir Starmer has said Boris Johnson’s government is ‘holding back a generation’ with its post-coronavirus school catchup plan. The £1.4bn announced for the post-pandemic catchup programme for pupils in England is about a 10th of the £15bn total understood to have been recommended by the education recovery commissioner, Sir Kevan Collins.
The Labour party is expected to put forward a motion for more funding for schoolchildren. Starmer said Johnson could not claim to be on the side of deprived youth if he did not support the Collins plan
