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School’s out: the true cost of classroom closures

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Schools have been closed for almost three months – what is the true cost of these closures on pupils (1:00)? Plus, have Brexit negotiations started looking up (13:15)? And last, are the statue-topplers of Rhodes Must Fall going about their mission the wrong way (22:45)?

With teacher Lucy Kellaway; the IFS’s Paul Johnson; the Spectator’s political editor James Forsyth; the FT’s public policy editor Peter Foster; journalists Tanjil Rashid and Nadine Batchelor-Hunt.

Presented by Cindy Yu.

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