Gordon Brown calls on ministers not to scrap T-level qualification

Brown said getting rid of T-levels would be ‘calamitous and costly’. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Gordon Brown has called on the new government to retain the Conservatives’ technical qualifications, which Rishi Sunak had promised to ditch.

In a foreword to a report, Brown argues that T-levels are “one of the few genuinely successful new ideas and initiatives of the last decade” and that scrapping them would be “calamitous and costly”. Labour previously said it would review them after taking office.