Lucy Powell: “I do – how is something we’ll all need to help with, and be part of.”

I can’t make any promises, but, you know, it needs looking at.

It’s a hamster wheel with many young people constantly being branded a failure and having to resit.

I absolutely don’t want schools to dumb down. My kids might say I’m a tiger mum. You know, I’m a tiger mum for all our kids – every single child that’s in our education system achieving excellence, achieving what they can do.

I think it’s not just about the threshold of when people start to pay it back, but also the interest rate, which is … RPI plus 3%, which is, you know, I think I’ve called it in the past egregious.