Liz Truss has been slammed for claiming she was the first Prime Minister to go to a comprehensive school in her Conservative Party Conference speech today.
Addressing the audience in Birmingham, the Prime Minister told of how she had experienced sexism growing up as a child and how she was lucky that her family 'valued education and enterprise'. She continued: "And I stand here today as the first Prime Minster of our country to have gone to a comprehensive school."
However, this is not the case - as people have figured out on Twitter. Ruth Cadbury, Labour MP for Brentford & Isleworth, said: "In the Prime Minister's conference speech she says she is the 'first Prime Minister of our country to go to a comprehensive school'. Yet Gordon Brown went to Kirkcaldy High School- a 'comprehensive state school' according to a quick search on the internet..."
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And Conservative former prime minister Theresa May attended a girls’ grammar school in Oxfordshire, which was reorganised into a comprehensive school during her time there.
The government's website details this, saying: "Theresa had a varied education, spanning both the state and private sectors and attending both grammar school and comprehensive school. She studied geography at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University."
During the speech, Liz Truss was interrupted by Greenpeace protesters. Two women held up a banner which read 'who voted for this?'.
They were quickly escorted from the hall.
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