Ahead of the King’s speech this week, Labour has been reaching out to traditional allies
On Thursday, new education secretary Bridget Phillipson held a reception for members of the education workforce. It followed her open letter earlier last week in which she reached out to educators promising that the new government would respect them and their unions, working in partnership.
The tone could not be more different from that of her predecessor Gillian Keegan, who had latterly pledged to introduce minimum service levels to universities. Keegan’s cabinet colleague Michelle Donelan, meanwhile, picked fights with academics that ended in a libel settlement.
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