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TORY constituencies are being shielded from the worst of school funding cuts, new research has revealed ahead of a major rally to defend school budgets.
The National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers say 92 per cent of schools are set to face cuts of their per-pupil funding in the next four years.
Teachers will march down Whitehall today before a central London rally, in the first of a number of demonstrations across Britain to save schools from the consequences of insufficient funding ahead of Philip Hammond’s mini-Budget next week.
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
