Articles - Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson MP: Anti-Semitism in our schools and universities will not be tolerated

This Article was originally published in The Telegraph. Click here to read the original. Today marks a year since the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel. The dreadful events of 7 October last year may have unfolded more than 2,000 miles from our shores, but their dark impact was felt…

Bridget Phillipson MP: ‘I will help working class pupils defy the odds to succeed – just as I did’

This article was originally published in The Guardian. To read the original click here. The new education secretary talks about her background, the ‘incredible state school’ she went to, and her plans to transform the system. Bridget Phillipson is standing up to welcome us into her large, very smart new…

Bridget Phillipson MP: For me, Ms Haq was the teacher you never forget. But today’s Ms Haqs are quitting

This article was originally published in The Guardian. To read the original click here. Education is key to children’s life chances – that’s why Labour will end the Tory chaos that is driving teachers out of the profession. Picture the scene: a crumbling school in the north-east, ceilings held up…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour’s Bridget Phillipson vows to get London schoolkids happier and back in class

This article was originally published in The Standard. To read the original click here. In an interview with the Standard, shadow education secretary says she is gunning for the ‘one job in government’ that really changes children’s lives but admits to funding pressures. Cracking down on truancy, addressing children’s mental…

Bridget Phillipson: Working parents deserve a childcare system that actually works

This article was originally published in the Independent. To read the original click here. Families need properly affordable childcare – not just 15 hours-worth of vouchers, says shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson In 1798, Benjamin Franklin said there were two certainties you could rely on in life: death and taxes.…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Back to School

This article was originally published in UNISON Magazine. To read the original click here. Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to UNISON about her plans to rebuild the education system – and how that can impact on the union’s members. Bridget Phillipson was born into Thatcherism and brought up by…

Bridget Phillipson: Parents must save lockdown’s lost generation

This article was originally published in The Times. To read the original click here. The Shadow education secretary takes aim at absenteeism as a poll reveals that one in four parents don’t think their child has to go to school each day. Bridget Phillipson understands only too well the transformative…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour could abandon Rishi Sunak’s maths reforms to focus on primary school provision

This article was originally published in the Financial Times. To read the original click here. Prime minister’s priorities are ‘wrong way round’, says shadow education secretary. Rishi Sunak has put the “cart before the horse” with his plans to extend maths teaching until the age of 18 and should instead…

Bridget Phillipson: ‘We’re in a crucial moment in the economy, particularly for women’

This article was originally published in Grazia. To read the original click here. When Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson was a little girl, she sometimes went to bed fully dressed. With no heating upstairs and draughty, rotten windows, it helped her stay warm. Her mother was a single parent, unable…

The Bridget Phillipson interview ‘I don’t believe life should come down to luck’

This article was originally published in The House magazine. To read the original click here. “I’ve always been aware that I’ve been very lucky in many ways,” says Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s shadow education secretary. “But what motivates me is that I don’t believe life should come down to luck.” That…

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