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A great day in the SW today. Seeing the Bridgwater & Taunton College Agratas partnership; meeting degree apprentices University of Exeter ; launching foundation apprenticeships with students & housebuilders at Exeter College and meeting enthusiastic staff & students with Perran Moon MP 〓〓🌹 🇺🇦 Cornwall College

Teachers shape the future. This #ThankaTeacherDay on June 18, join me in recognising their dedication. Send a card or share your appreciation at thankateacher.co.uk. Thank a Teacher UK

Minister Jacqui Smith celebrated the launch of Foundation Apprenticeships with us. LiveWest, #VistryGroup, Taylor Wimpey, persimmonhomes, and Willmott Dixon pledged to support this new initiative. More: bit.ly/4kKQEoJ #ExeCollProud Department for Education

This week, Nigel Farage has made billions of unfunded spending commitments with no clue how to pay for it. Where have we heard that before?

Thank you to The Open University for a great visit today. Talked to students about the life changing opportunities to study offered by the OU and celebrated the visionary work of Jennie Lee and Harold Wilson who made it happen.

Garbage. New Labour delivered for the working class, who voted for it; it was under Corbyn that the Labour vote became middle class

Big thanks to Skills Minister, Baroness Smith, for a valuable discussion today with Business Board leaders across the country on all things skills - apprenticeships, LSIPs, Skills Bootcamps etc. We look forward to working with the minister and DfE in the future. Jacqui Smith

Last week, we welcomed Skills Minister Jacqui Smith, for the launch of Foundation Apprenticeships. These programmes support 16–21s into sectors such as construction, healthcare & digital. exe-coll.ac.uk/apprenticeship… Willmott Dixon Taylor Wimpey persimmonhomes LiveWest

This is a barefaced lie, so everyone's clear. Not one penny is being taken away from disadvantaged children – not through transitional protections, not through pupil premium, not through related school funding. Really desperate stuff from a lost party sliding into oblivion.

On tonight’s Any Questions, Alex Forsyth is joined in Rogate by Josh Babarinde MP, Sarah Elliott, Baroness Smith and Dr. Ben Spencer MP. #BBCAQ Listen 8pm Friday / 1.10pm Saturday on BBC Radio 4 on on demand on BBC Sounds. bbc.in/3HpzFd7

£2.4 billion for better transport – across every corner of the West Midlands. From Coventry to the Black Country, this huge investment will fund dozens of projects to improve the way everyone travels – by rail, tram, bus, bike, car or on foot. It's a game changer.

500,000 more children fed in schools, and £500 back in the pockets of working parents.

Dignity with a side portion of sass from the excellent Peter Kyle

And that’s a wrap! Thanks so much to Alison McGovern, Jacqui Smith, Catherine McKinnell MP, Stephen Morgan MP, Helen Hayes 💙🌹 and all the fantastic speakers throughout the day at the Fabian Society Opportunity Mission Summit!

The scenes emerging of a London-bound plane carrying many British nationals crashing in the Indian city of Ahmedabad are devastating. I am being kept updated as the situation develops, and my thoughts are with the passengers and their families at this deeply distressing time.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is receiving a cutting-edge radiotherapy machine—part of this Government’s £70m investment to speed up diagnosis and treatment. Faster, safer care for more patients.

Great to catch up with CEO Emma Taylor Sandwell Children to hear about the hard work of continued improvement for the most vulnerable children and families.

The Labour Party wishes His Majesty The King a very happy official birthday.

My shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2-5 Aug with Rachel Reeves Jess Phillips Jacqui Smith Dr Tessa Dunlop Joanna Cherry KC Sir Jeremy Hunt MP Michael Crick Brian Taylor Michael Heseltine, Sir John Curtice, Lord Dannatt & Lord Darroch. Buy tickets pleasance.co.uk/search?query=i……

Three Years of Department for Education FEC Shelagh Legrave led #JustOneThing today City Lit starting with honest reflections from Jacqui Smith in conversation with Mark Malcomson lessons from her career - we are very lucky to have a Minster for Skills who shares our ambition &