Former Education Secretary Michael Gove has accused Labour of promising schools “a quarter of a teacher”.
Gove also said NHS waiting lists would be higher if Labour had been in power because Sir Keir Starmer would have kept the country in lockdown for longer.
Speaking on GB News, he said of the first TV debate :“Rishi Sunak won six-nil.
“We've got a fantastic record on education. We’re the party that's improved state schools and as far as I could tell Keir Starmer was talking about maths then he said he wants to have six thousand new teachers.
“There are 23,000 schools in this country so their policy appears to be that the way to improve education is to give every school a quarter of a teacher.
“Nothing adds up under Labour other than tax increases because the real message was that when pressed on the £2,000 tax increase that Labour would bring forward, Starmer didn't have any answers. He couldn't deny it.
“Indeed, when asked ‘show us the details’ he said, ‘look let's not get into the details.’ Of course he can't get into the details because Labour have no plans other than to raid your wallet.
“The reason that we have NHS waiting lists in the position that we do is because of lockdown, because of Covid.
“Waiting lists would be even higher if Keir Starmer had been Prime Minister because he would have kept us in lockdown for longer.
“On migration, Keir Starmer has been a consistent advocate of an open borders policy and again if you want that, if you want migration to be higher, then of course vote Labour, that is absolutely what you should be doing.
“But during the course of this debate when he was asked about processing migrants in a third country Keir Starmer indicated that he might be open to that, then he realised he was endorsing our policy and he retreated. What a shambles.”
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