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No 10 criticises education secretary Gillian Keegan over extraordinary outburst – as Tory MPs urge Sunak to deliver new funding package for school repairs

Minister apologises after being recorded claiming government has gone ‘over and above’ on Raac in schools

With the cameras still rolling, the Cabinet minister criticised others for having ‘sat on their arse’ while she tackled the crumbling concrete crisis.

Watch live as education secretary Gillian Keegan delivers statement on crumbling school crisis on Monday 4 September.

A coalition of education unions is demanding urgent clarity from the Government over support and funding for schools affected by the concrete crisis.

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan complained she was not getting the credit for doing a ‘good job’.

Rishi Sunak is facing questions about lack of funding for rebuild schemes when he was chancellor

Gillian Keegan later apologised for ‘unnecessary’ language she said was in a ‘off-the-cuff’ remark

Gillian Keegan caught on hot mic voicing frustrations

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan criticised others and claimed the Government had gone ‘over and above’.

It is back to school day across the country — or it ought to be. Instead, pupils at 104 schools and colleges, eight of them in London, face serious disruption after full and partial closures of the buildings they use over fears about a catastrophic collapse of the concrete used…