New Prime Minister Liz Truss has been urged to return to Leeds and see the local school system for herself, after she repeatedly slammed it during her leadership campaign.
Ms Truss defeated fellow candidate Rishi Sunak on Monday to become Conservative Party leader and enter Downing Street. But her remarks about her education at Roundhay High School in Leeds in the late 1980s and early 1990s have caused a stir, with the PM claiming last week the city council prioritised “political correctness” over “teaching English and maths”.
She’s also suggested “disadvantaged” pupils at the school were let down by poor standards. Critics accused her of misrepresenting the area and the school, which was rated ‘satisfactory’ by Ofsted while she was there.
