(Birmingham, Yardley)
(Lab):...Today is my son Danny’s 11th birthday. Thanks to the years
of cuts voted for by the Prime Minister, my son Danny and hundreds
of children in Birmingham, Yardley are in super-sized classes and
are only being educated four and a half days a week. I do not want
to hear his fancy stock answers about Brexit or Russia that he has
been giving from his little folder or about how he is going to give
more—[Interruption.]
I do not want to hear the Prime Minister’s campaign-ad answer,
because my son will not be able to go to school on Friday, and
his campaign-ad answer does nothing for me as a parent.
[Interruption.] I am so glad that they think it is really funny
that children cannot go to school five days a week. The Prime
Minister is responsible for the children in this country, and
while he might struggle with that personally, will he today give
a commitment that there will be a maximum number of children in
every class post the election and that every single child will be
able to go to school for five days a week?
The Prime Minister: May I first of all wish a very happy
birthday to Danny? I can reassure the hon. Lady that I believe
that under this Government—under this Conservative Government—he
will have the best possible chance not only of having the funding
for his school that he needs, because we are investing in every
primary and every secondary school in the country, but of having,
as I say, the £14 billion to level up funding both in primary and
in secondary schools. I believe that Danny will have a better
chance of a great job under this Government—and look at what we
have achieved already: record employment under this
Government—and a better chance of being able to find, eventually,
his own home. So Danny has a great future under this Government,
and I hope she will reassure him on that point.
