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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Gillian Keegan caught saying ‘everyone else has sat on arse’ over concrete crisis

Gillian Keegan has apologised after being caught swearing on camera while expressing frustration about the crumbling concrete crisis in schools, claiming that “everyone else has sat on their arse” while she tried to fix the problem.

In a seemingly unguarded moment after a TV interview, the education secretary was filmed lamenting that nobody had praised her for doing a “fucking good job”.

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