Gavin Williamson under pressure to resign over A-level results ‘fiasco’
Lib Dems say minister is ‘out of excuses’ and Labour calls for results system to be scrapped
Gavin Williamson is facing increasing pressure over the education department’s mishandling of this summer’s exam results in England, with the Liberal Democrats calling on him to resign and Labour demanding that the results be replaced by teacher assessments.
Layla Moran, the Lib Dems’ education spokesperson, said Williamson should go because of the disruption caused when thousands of students were given lower grades than expected on Thursday.
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