You know, to be lectured by somebody who stood for election on the basis of cutting education spending by 12 per cent—by 12 per cent—is unbelievable. To be lectured by somebody whose party is failing to build schools in England—failing to build schools in England—while we are building schools in Wales; to be lectured by somebody who wanted to bring back grammar schools—grammar schools—chucking most children onto a scrapheap; no, no, no I’m not going to be lectured by him.

Of course there are issues in the education system. We see improvement and we’re seeing it. Why? GCSE results are improving. A-level results are improving. We’re seeing more schools that are coming out of a category of being underperforming. We’re seeing the support that teachers need. Estyn has pointed out the good practice as well. It’s not all bad. It’s not a ‘damning indictment’—what a load of nonsense. It’s shown that there are particular weaknesses that need to be focused on, and they are being focused on, but we know that our schools are going in the right direction, with proper funding, and not being starved of funding by his party as elsewhere in Britain.