It’ll take more than money for Boris Johnson to make good on his promise of better schools

Ofsted's revelation that 200,000 children are stuck in schools unable to achieve a "good" rating shows the scale of the challenge.

By Freddie Whittaker

With all the election triumphalism, Labour’s leadership race and ongoing Brexit bluster, anyone would think the government doesn’t have a load of other important stuff to do that isn’t concerned with getting the UK out of the EU.

A Brexit election it may well have been, but Boris Johnson also made great overtures on issues of social policy, promising “better schools” on the steps of Downing Street on 13 December.