Sajid Javid to focus on skills in budget to hold on to ex-Labour seats
Chancellor expected to fund broken FE colleges in effort to ‘level up’ country
Sajid Javid will make skills a central theme of his March budget as the government seeks to cement its electoral hold on former Labour heartlands by emphasising its post-Brexit plan to “level up” the country.
The chancellor is expected to announce more funding to repair crumbling further education colleges; measures to increase the availability of in-career retraining; and a further expansion of apprenticeships.