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As free school meals are extended into the Christmas holidays, the government has backtracked on more than a dozen of its key policies throughout Covid-19.
The list inevitably features education secretary Gavin Williamson as the government faced the music over its exams fiasco.
Students have got their grades – now it's the education secretary's turn to be examined.
But senior Tory also admits it "certainly was foreseen" that private schools would do better.
The government had “risked thousands of young people being robbed of their futures”, said shadow education secretary Kate Green.
Education secretary had tried to shift blame for the exams fiasco, which saw mass downgrading of students.
Anger as aspiring medics are left in limbo despite their determination to help fight Covid-19: "I hate the fact that the area I live in is what has caused all this."
Education secretary Gavin Williamson said the government was working with the awarding body Pearson to review grades.
Scale of the failure to help disadvantaged children during lockdown and beyond is uncovered in damning new data.
Gavin Williamson refused to answer when asked if he would resign over the debacle.