Education Bill

Debate
Part of the 2nd Model House of Commons program. The debate began with the Leader of the House, George Jenkinson setting out the program for the following weeks' prorogation and election. Then the leader of the Labour Party, Euan Caskie began the debate with the statement on the bill to the rebuttal of the leader of the Conservatives, who set about his intentions for the upcoming election as part of his rebuttal. He further went on to criticise the leader of the Labour party, for his policy of planning on re-educating teachers to meet labour education guidelines and standards. The leader of the Liberal Democrats then had a go at firing shots at the leader of the Labour Party, with many successful hits, specifically on how he intends on funding the entire program and what levels of integration the Labour Party's policy would see happened to private schools. After a weak defence from the Labour Party, it was the turn of the shadow home secretary to take shots at the Leader of the House, going off-topic about his intended plans of funding his manifesto pledges while not raising tax, which was met by a strong rebuttal from the Leader of the House. It was then the turn of the deputy leader of the Brexit Party to speak, Vassil Gilbert, pledging, once again to get Brexit done, which was well received by its leader Hayden Beckett and Lily Rendell, Brexit Party MP for South Thanet; this was however heckled by the rest of the chamber including the Leader of the House who questioned them on their promises of no-deal Brexit. The debate once again turned to education as the shadow Foreign Secretary and leader of the Green Party, Angie Aravinthan, setting out her agenda on the matter and the Green Party's policy to abolish Ofsted. The Chancellor, Charlotte Pettitt who delivered her maiden speech a week earlier at the International Men's Day debate, questioned the Leader of the Labour Party on his figures and exactly how he planned to divide up the schools assets, which was met once again with strong backing from the Conservative benches, especially when the Leader of the Labour Party struggled to respond adequately to the questioning. The debate was surmised by the Leader of the House, calling out the Labour Party for the claims of anti-Semitism, disorganisation and lack of statistical economic support. The bill was defeated by a substantial margin in the house as no division was called. The house was the prorogued until the 8th of January.