David Johnston OBE
@david4wantage
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Director of Conservative Networks. Former MP for Wantage & Didcot 2019-24 & Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing 2023-24. Former charity CEO.
Wantage, England
Joined November 2019
In the @Telegraph today, details about Conservative Networks, a new organisation I've created to bring together people from all parts of the Conservative Party and wider Conservative family to help the new leader rebuild support for us:. #CPC24.
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Rachel Reeves should tell this to her education colleagues at the next Cabinet - it neatly sums up Labour policy
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'Shocked' they say, shocked - yet No 10 signed it off as it would never have got to parliament otherwise.
EXCL: Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is under pressure from No10 over schools academy reforms. No10 said to be shocked by scale of the backlash to the Bill. No10 deny a rift. But Govt insiders says Bridget is "in the dog house" .
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People who've run and improved schools: against Labour's bill. Militant union leaders: it's 'an exciting set of announcements'. It's not hard to work out who Labour's terrible bill was written for.
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Excellent letter from @Miss_Snuffy - Labour's moves will undo all the progress that has been made in education over many years. Why would any government want to do that?.
My open letter to the Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP . Many teachers and school leaders share my concerns with regard to her decisions but are scared to say. If you can find it in you, please RT. My letter is also here:
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RT @play2give: £30k in the bag for brain injury warriors 🥳🎉. Huge congratulations Andy smashing £30k raised across a decade for @OxfordHIS….
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RT @KemiBadenoch: Labour inherited the fastest growing economy in the G7. In 6 months they’ve .🔴taken Britain to the brink of recession.🔴th….
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Because the unions told them to. @DamianHinds absolutely right in yesterday's debate.
Why would ministers want to take freedoms away from school leaders?
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Spot on from @michaelgove. And unlike the economy, where we get monthly & quarterly data showing how bad the impact of Labour's policies are, the damage of their trade union-sponsored ideology in education will only become clear over several years - and take many more to undo.
'This government is precise in seeking to destroy the policies that have given children the best education possible.'. ✍️ Michael Gove
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RT @spectator: 'Amid all the inevitable questions about what went wrong in the past, there are undoubtedly policies ready for implementatio….
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RT @NJ_Timothy: A brilliant speech by @Siobhain_Mc, Labour MP, bravely taking to pieces the Government’s new education bill, which reverses….
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RT @ClaireCoutinho: This Bill is extremely poorly thought through. Take the new child identifier number which supposedly will stop childr….
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RT @StuartAndrew: 🚨 Reeves’ National Insurance Job Tax will take 1 in every 10 pounds donated to charities. Labour’s NIC hikes are a slap….
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RT @ClaireCoutinho: Fewer jobs, higher prices, lower growth. Thanks to Labour’s political choices, which they didn’t tell anyone about a….
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The Corbynistas may have lost the 2019 election, but it seems it didn't matter because they now get to run the Department for Education anyway. Take a look at how many of this Labour Government's education policies so far are actually from Jeremy Corbyn's manifestos: . 🧵.
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All the militant unions wanted for Christmas was yesterday's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Look how excited the NEU - the union that told teachers not to teach a full timetable or routinely mark work during the pandemic - is:
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Just like that, all the progress made in recent years will be undone thanks to a combination of ideology, low expectations and giving in to union demands. Which is why I'm not celebrating having a state-educated Cabinet:.
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