Let's call it the co-operative model. She has, though, the luxury of being in opposition, and could be as radical and free-spending as the party faithful would like. I haven't costed her proposals, but improving teacher pay, reversing the cuts to budgets, a new pre-school entitlement, and changes to governance and management would not be cheap.
At the Conservative party conference, Secretary of State Damian Hinds had a much harder job, as he has to manage within the budget allocated by the Treasury. He is also saddled with the structural reforms of the Gove era, and he isn't going to go back on those. Perhaps it's not surprising that he has been reprimanded by the UK's statistics watchdog for giving too rosy a view of funding and school achievements - it must be tempting to present the best possible interpretation of data, however questionable the analysis.
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