OILY Jeremy Hunt,
when pressed by Laura Kuenssberg about replacing crumbling reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete in schools, vowed that the government will “spend what it takes to sort out this problem as quickly as possible.”
But Hunt’s neoliberal masters at the Treasury quickly backtracked on his rash pledge to make schools safe for children, saying the funding must come from the The blame for this debacle rests firmly with billionaire banker Rishi Sunak. 300-400 schools per annum were in need of repairs. When he was chancellor, Sunak decided he would only fund repairs to 50 schools per year. The
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