The education secretary has accused the Conservatives of a “manufactured smear” after she was criticised over the profit her family made from the sale of her mother’s council house.
Over the weekend it was reported that the sale of Bridget Phillipson’s childhood home generated a profit of £90,000, with the Conservatives accusing senior Labour figures of “pulling up the drawbridge” through restrictions to the Right to Buy scheme after many Labour politicians benefited from it.
