Education Secretary Gillian Keegan is in hot water. Keegan has been touring the broadcast studios to reassure worried parents in the wake of the schools concrete crisis, but it seems she has had enough. When the cameras stopped rolling at the end of her ITV interview, she let rip by saying:
‘Does anyone ever say, you know what, you’ve done a f***ing good job while everyone else has sat on their arses and done nothing? No signs of that, no?’
Mr S thinks it’s unlikely this will go down well with mums and dads worried whether their children’s schools are in danger of collapsing, or with teachers preparing for a new term.
Update: Gillian Keegan has now apologised for her ‘choice language’ after the interview, and explained that: ‘It was an off-the-cuff remark, after the news interview had finished. I’d like to apologise for my choice language, that was unnecessary.’
It appears though that Keegan isn’t entirely repentant.
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