Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will make his first speech in 2023 today. The Conservative leader will set out his priorities for the year ahead, which will include plans for education.
His speech comes at a time of a cost of living crisis, multiple strike actions and huge pressures on the NHS. In his speech on Wednesday (January 4), the prime minister is expected to share his plans to ensure that all school pupils in England will study some form of maths to the age of 18 as an attempt to tackle "low numeracy rates".
During his speech, the prime minister will acknowledge that the reform of this scale "won't be easy", but will introduce it in this Parliament with the aim of completing it in the next one. In a statement published ahead of the speech, the UK Government added that it did not "envisage" making maths A-Level compulsory for all 16-year-olds.
