The Latest Breaking News from Gillian Keegan

Hunt to raise living wage to £11 an hour and crackdown on benefit ‘shirkers’

National living wage to increase to £11 an hour, Hunt to promise at Tory conference

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2023

Hunt to set out tougher welfare rules and boost living wage at Tory conference

Other measures at the Manchester gathering will include a plan to ban mobile phones in England’s schools.

The Independent UK · Oct 1, 2023

Unions ask Sunak for extra £4.4bn a year to fix crumbling schools in England

Eight unions and school governors’ body write to PM saying Raac crisis highlights chronic underfunding

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

Children prefer learning in temporary classrooms, Education Secretary claims

An additional 27 schools and colleges in England have been identified as having reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), figures show.

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2023

Watch as Gillian Keegan takes questions in parliament on crumbling concrete in schools

Watch as Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, takes questions in parliament on schools affected by crumbling concrete and the impact on children's learning.

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2023

Pupils ‘prefer portacabins to classrooms’, education secretary claims

A total of 23 schools have been forced to adopt some degree of remote learning due to safety concerns over the concrete

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2023

Swearing has lost none of its power to shock – thank f***!

Adverts, MPs and newsreaders have all been caught in the act… But are we losing our understanding of context and how language evolves?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2023

Could Gillian Keegan identify Raac if she saw it?

Letter: School site manager Mark Hosking says the education secretary needs to stop blaming everyone else and order inspections

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023

Brits have a rich swearing heritage. Let’s follow Gillian Keegan’s lead, FFS

Post-Brexit politics is shameless, amoral and venal, so perhaps MPs’ language should match our torrid times

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023

Gillian Keegan: a very modern Tory, self-made and unbound

The go-getting education minister has travelled from car-factory apprentice at 16 to success in business and politics, and sees no reason for modesty

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2023