Articles - Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson answers Mumsnet users’ questions

This interview was originally recorded on mumsnet.com. To watch the original interview and read the transcript on the Mumsnet website, click here. Transcript Justine Roberts: So straight off with the question from chaffinch77. Hi Bridget, it seems clear to me that many of the problems in our schools from RAAC to…

Bridget Phillipson: Attacks on Labour’s private school plans show how little the Tories care for state schools

This article was originally published on iNews.co.uk. To read the original article click here. Politics is about choices, often tough ones. It’s something the Prime Minister continues to tell us on a weekly basis. The choices we make define us as politicians, and define governments. Rishi Sunak knows this only…

Bridget Phillipson: ‘Girls must be given same chance to play football or we’ll wreck Lionesses’ legacy’

This article was originally published in The Mirror. To read the original click here. Girls must be given the chance to play football in school or we’ll squander the Lionesses’ legacy, Bridget Phillipson has warned. The Labour frontbencher vowed to increase the number of PE teachers to give more young…

Bridget Phillipson sets out her vision: ‘You can’t get a first-class education in second class schools’

This article was originally published in the Guardian. To read the original article click here. It is a Friday, a day of train strikes, so Bridget Phillipson cannot easily get back to her Houghton and Sunderland South constituency. Instead, the shadow secretary of state for education is in London being…

Bridget Phillipson: I am determined to make sure that background will be no barrier to getting on

I’m in today’s Times magazine (£, sorry) talking about backgrounds & opportunities. I want every child to have opportunity. Under Labour, background will be no barrier. But there's more than that. A little thread 🧵 —https://t.co/leNQp7ib5d — Bridget Phillipson (@bphillipsonMP) July 29, 2023

Graduates, you will pay less under a Labour government

Our universities are famous the world over, and rightly. They are a great British achievement, centres of scholarship and research excellence, full of committed, dedicated, and capable staff. Universities are engines of opportunity that sit at the heart of our towns and cities, bringing jobs, economic growth and prosperity to…

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…

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