Education Secretary Gillian Keegan is facing fresh pressure over her future amid growing anger among Tory MPs.
One told The Independent: “Like virtually everyone else in this Government she is a technocrat not a politician. She can probably survive. (There is) no point in replacing her if just the same old”.
It comes after the head of the National Audit Office (NAO) accused Rishi Sunak’s government of a “sticking plaster approach” to building repairs in scathing remarks about the crumbling schools crisis.
Gareth Davies, head of the spending watchdog, said the government had neglected the “unflashy” job of maintaining public buildings in usable condition.
Writing in The Times, the NAO chief said families where schools had been forced to close were now paying the price for “underinvestment”.
Ms Keegan also defended holidaying in Spain in the run-up to the Raac scandal. She said it was the “first time” she had the chance to go on holiday.
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