Former education secretary and ardent Brexiter Michael Gove has admitted that scrapping the Building Schools for the Future programme when he took office in 2010 was one of his worst mistakes in government.
Gove, now a backbench MP, abolished the £55bn school-building programme, introduced by the previous Labour administration, shortly after the coalition government was formed.
Michael Gove: regrets
In reviewing the scheme he decided he concluded that all local authority schemes that had not reached financial close would not go ahead, saving “billions” of pounds. This meant that 719 school revamps already signed up to the scheme were jettisoned, causing wide anger across the sector has teams were disbanded and job cuts were made – particularly among consultants.
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