Okay. I do actually acknowledge the fact that if we look at what's happening across the water in England, you will see that there is a huge issue in terms of funding for schools in England, and quite frankly, the gap that you're talking about is equitable across Wales. I won't take any lessons in regard to that, despite the rhetoric that has not always been the case for funding of schools in England. And I remember as a teacher, pre Assembly, and as a school governor, laying off teachers, and there is no doubt that all our public sector is feeling passported financial strain. So, I would ask that we do shake that magic money tree for Wales.

The spending priorities outlined in the Conservative alternative budget for the 2011 Assembly elections would have led to a 12 per cent cut in the Welsh education budget in the last Assembly. Had that been enacted, that would have been the equivalent of nearly 10,000 teachers losing their jobs—[Interruption.] I really haven't got time, I'm afraid—cuts to our workforce and to the budget that would have had catastrophic impact on educational outcomes for our young people. Now, either the Welsh Conservatives were playing politics or they were deadly serious in their belief that savaging teaching staff numbers and increasing class sizes to 50 or 60 pupils would help lift standards in Welsh education. So, beyond a nostalgic and half-baked notion that somehow reintroducing grammar schools and selection in Wales would see us catapulting up the Programme for International Student Assessment rankings, the Welsh Conservatives, and, I believe, UKIP, have shown no appetite to do any of the hard graft, the hard policy work that would constitute an alternative to the vision that has been laid out over the last four years and as recognised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

So, let's compare and contrast. The Tory UK Government have slashed funding—my earlier point— in every area of education, from early years to schools to further and adult education, with billions of pounds lost since they first came to office in spring 2010. The academy schools and the rife selection process that goes on openly and behind closed doors is not the model that we wish to see in Wales. Since 2015, the Tories have cut, and I will say this, £2.7 billion from school budgets in England. So, I am sorry, but I won't take any lessons in that regard. An analysis of figures produced by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that school budgets are £1.7 billion lower in real terms than they were five years ago.

Labour in Wales has ambition for our young people, and the Labour Party in Wales will deliver for our young people. As the OECD has stated, though, it will be equitably, it will be inclusively, and it will be without selection.