Articles - Bridget Phillipson

Sunderland Echo: The Government’s poverty of ambition has been failing our children for thirteen long years

The Government’s refusal to come clean on England’s crumbling school buildings is putting lives at risk It’s been over a year since leaked Government documents revealed that “many school buildings in England are now in such disrepair they are a risk to life”. And yet the Government has still not…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour warns parents face ‘childcare deserts’ with sector at risk of ‘crashing’ under Tories

In an interview with The Mirror, the Shadow Education Secretary accused Jeremy Hunt of “pouring petrol on a fire that is already raging”. Earlier this month he announced plans to offer more free hours – without enough cash to prop up the struggling system Parents in some parts of the…

Bridget Phillipson MP says her single mum was ‘pushed into poverty’ over lack of childcare

Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, who grew up in a council house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, said her mum Clare didn’t go back to work full time until she started school because no childcare was available. Bridget Phillipson has described how her family struggled when her single mum couldn’t work…

How Labour can win: Bridget Phillipson MP on childcare, Brexit and faith

On 12 April last year, Boris Johnson’s fixed penalty notice was dominating the news. Few noticed another, perhaps equally seismic political story in Bournemouth: a member of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet was being booed by the unions. Speaking at the National Education Union’s annual conference, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Australian Labor is showing what progressives can achieve in power

Just as Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese changed his party, Keir Starmer has changed the Labour Party here. The pioneering postwar Australian prime minister Ben Chifley said in 1949 that the labour movement’s great objective was not to put an extra sixpence in somebody’s pocket, nor to make someone prime…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour’s childcare plan will be like the birth of the NHS

Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, believes the “scale and ambition” of Labour’s childcare reforms will compare with Aneurin Bevan’s creation of the National Health Service. In a bid to resolve one of the biggest problems facing families, and therefore the economy, the rising Labour star has a plan, as…

Bridget Phillipson MP: “Childcare has to be part of a country’s economic strategy”

The shadow education secretary on what the UK can learn from Estonia, snobbery at Oxford and whether she wants to be Labour leader. Bridget Phillipson was, as Labour frontbenchers often are these days, campaigning in the sort of marginal seat that her party needs to win in the next general…

Bridget Phillipson MP plans expansion of state nursery sector in England to ease pressure on parents

Proposals are part of party’s wider ambition to build system of high-quality, affordable childcare and to make issue an election pledge Councils in England will be encouraged to open more high-quality maintained nurseries as part of ambitious Labour plans to transform childcare and ease pressure on struggling parents. There are fewer than…

Bridget Phillipson MP: The Conservative Party has given up on governing Britain – it can’t even govern itself

Election Now: It’s time for a Labour government that will work with unions and business alike to build an economy that works for all of us, not some of us, writes Bridget Phillipson Four prime ministers in seven years. Four chancellors in four months. Four education secretaries in 365 days. These…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour promise of free breakfasts ‘first step on the road to rebuilding childcare’

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson to announce plan to fund breakfast clubs in every primary school Labour will rebuild a new childcare system to ease the pressure on parents from the “end of parental leave right through to the end of primary school”, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said, starting…

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