The education secretary, Gillian Keegan, has risked angering schools a day after a sweary outburst landed her in trouble, this time claiming education leaders who had not responded to a survey about whether they were affected by crumbling concrete should “get off their backsides”.
Her comments in a radio interview came a day after she was forced to apologise after being caught swearing on camera while expressing frustration about the crisis surrounding reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) in schools, claiming that “everyone else has sat on their arse” while she tried to fix the problem.
