Extract from Urgent Question (Commons) on Coronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for Pupils - Sep 23

Friday, 24 September 2021 07:28

Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North) (Con): I find the irony of this urgent question being called by those on the Labour Front Bench somewhat mystifying, because they went missing throughout the pandemic, and there was silence on the issue of schools. It is not just me who thinks this. Let me quote: “Labour’s silence on closing schools is completely ridiculous.” That was Corbynista Owen Jones saying that, so it is not just we on the Conservative Benches who think it. The NEU—or...Request free trial