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Parliament returned from summer recess but it has been anything but a calm and relaxing summer holiday as the fallout from the exam results fiasco and many, many more U-turns from the government left Boris Johnson and the Tories sinking in the polls to the dismay of the party’s MPs.
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“To wait until the Friday night before most schools return isn’t the government’s finest moment.”
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"The buck stops with Williamson. Sooner or later, he has to go too," a Labour frontbencher said.
Following the U-turn on face masks in schools, one MP said of Gavin Williamson: "Who thinks he should stay? I’ve never met them.”
Education secretary suggestions pubs and restaurants would be closed down before schools if there is a significant coronavirus outbreak.
“Even with the U-turn the government has shown they don’t care about students,” one student told reporters.