Nursery World - New PM Boris Johnson makes education funding pledge

Giving his first speech as Prime Minister outside Downing Street after visiting the Queen, Mr Johnson promised to put education and schools at the top of his domestic agenda, and fix the crisis in social care.

He said, 'My job is to make sure your kids get a superb education wherever they are in the country.

'And that's why we have already announced that we are going to level up per-pupil funding in primary and secondary schools.'

Mr Johnson is expected to start naming his Cabinet from this evening, including who will be education secretary.

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As mayor of London, the new Prime Minister spoke of the need to encourage schools to allow more childcare on site to ease the shortage in the capital and announced an £8m fund to this effect. He was also accused of burying a report linking poor air quality with schools in deprived areas while mayor.

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