Will the Conservatives have much evidence that they’ve helped the country recover from the pandemic by the next election? Even though all the indications are that the party will go for a later poll in 2024, they still do not have much time to fix the big holes that have gaped wider as a result of Covid. In many cases, such as the NHS backlog, the holes were already there before the pandemic, which makes them even harder to close up.
Education is another policy area where the rhetoric and time left to fulfil it just don’t seem to match up. This morning I asked Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi on Times Radio when he expected school children to have caught up the learning and attainment they lost as a result of lockdown. He said: ‘My pledge to everyone listening to this programme is we will continue to make sure children are caught up by the end of this Parliament.
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