Labour is letting down Britain’s children, says National Education Union leader

Daniel Kebede said he wants the Labour government to listen. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

The leader of the UK’s biggest education union has torn into the government’s record on schools, accusing Labour of letting down the nation’s children and failing to deliver on its promises for education.

Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), was unsparing in his criticism of the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson’s policies in a speech to delegates at the NEU’s annual conference in Brighton on Thursday.