The Conservative Education Secretary has been left red faced, after ITV published footage minutes after she wrapped up an interview with them in which she delivery a swear-laden outburst about the RAAC crisis.
Gillian Keegan is clearly seen and heard asking why no one is thanking her for doing a “f***ing good job” amid chaos of parents learning their children can’t return to school days before the end of the summer holiday.
She also slams others, presumably her Tory predecessors in Government, for sitting “on their a***s” and failing to act.
The Education Secretary is on the back foot today, after she admitted hundreds more schools could be affected by the RAAC crisis, but parents, pupils and teachers do not know.
A Labour source has responded: “I’m sure parents across the country whose kids are sitting under steel girders will be sure to thank the Tories for ‘doing a fucking good job”.
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Having published the clip, ITV said: “As part of a morning round of interviews, Gillian Keegan was speaking to ITV News as it was confirmed there could potentially be hundreds more schools affected by the crisis”.
“In the moments after the main body of the interview had finished, and as the camera repositioned for extra shots, Keegan – still wearing her mic – criticised others and claimed the govt has gone ‘over and above’ in addressing concerns relating to RAAC.”
This afternoon, Bloomberg has revealed Ms Keegan went on holiday to Spain while the crisis unfolded.
Ms Keegan jetted off from August 25 to the 31 to celebrate her father’s birthday, after instructing colleagues to investigate the RAAC issue.
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Ms Keegan told the BBC this morning that hundreds more schools could be beset with crumbling concrete, with around 1,500 schools yet to return their surveys detailing the discovery of RAAC – around 10 percent of the nation’s 15,000 schools.
She said that the “vast majority” of surveys show now RAAC in schools, but admitted hundreds of those 1,500 could contain the potentially dangerous building material.
“If you go through the numbers that I’ve said, of the 90 percent that have come back only 1 percent of them have RAAC, so if you wanted to try and give an order of magnitude we’re talking much less than that”.
Ms Keegan said three incidents over the summer where RAAC had “failed” caused the last-minute move by the Government, sparking chaos for thousands of parents, but argued the Government has spent £15 billion on capital schools spending since 2015.
Ms Keegan’s office has been contacted for comment.
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The Education Secretary said they will now all be inspected “in the next two weeks”, after an increase in the number of building surveyors.
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