The new Education Secretary and her Ministerial team have huge boots to fill. The Conservative Party’s record on education between 2010 and 2024 is one we should all be proud of. We inherited a situation where only 68 per cent of schools were rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted in 2010 and raised standards to make this figure 90 per cent when we left office. When Labour was last in power, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ranked the UK 27th in the world for maths, 25th for reading and 16th for science. But thanks to the pioneering Conservative Ministers Michael Gove and…
