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Speaking in Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, where he has been meeting teachers to discuss school reopening plans, Starmer added:
The idea of using mock results is deeply flawed. Talking to teachers today, it’s obvious that they expect, across the piece, that young people will do better in the real exam than they’d done in the mock.
It’s not going to work, it’s not going to wash.
All of that needs to be put in place and it needs to be put in place before tomorrow is out.
The Labour leader Keir Starmer has attacked the timing of the government’s announcement.
This is complete fiasco. It was obvious that this was going to be difficult but it’s been weeks or months in the coming. To have an 11th-hour decision that’s caused widespread chaos amongst teachers I have been speaking to, families and young people – it smacks of incompetence.
It’s shambolic. It’s hours to go before the results. The problem is obvious and it’s been sitting there for weeks or months. We now face possibly 40% of young people having their grades changed and downgraded, possibly. And this risks robbing them of their future.
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