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Tories Are Undermining Their Own Success on School Reform
A wave of teacher strikes threatens one of their few real policy achievements. Do Conservatives have the heart to turn things around?
Members of the PCS union, teachers and supporters attend a rally in London.
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What exactly do the UK’s ruling Conservatives have to show for more than a decade of power? This is the awkward question haunting the party and its accidental helmsman, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, ahead of the next election.
True, they got Brexit done — if you like that sort of thing and a large chunk of voters still do. They stood up to Russia over Ukraine. But how have recent governments improved the country’s long-term performance?