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Damian Hinds laments poor school entry attainment – yet he and his Tory government are the cause

Tory Education Secretary Damian Hinds is lamenting the fact that four and five-year-olds are entering school unable to speak in full sentences, unable to understand the language of the classroom, and not fully toilet trained.

The whole underlying unspoken trajectory of his speech is “blame the parents.”

But it’s poverty, Minister. In poverty you will find your root cause and in poverty your government is the cause. You simply cannot inflict eight years of the most severe cuts on the heads of the poorest in society without then seeing the culminating effect of those cuts on the weakest — children.

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