General election 2019 latest: Labour announces cap on school class sizes

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Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner
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The general election is a week today, but the new plans and promises from the main contenders are still coming thick and fast.

Labour is pledging to cap school class sizes in England at 30 pupils and to hire 20,000 extra teachers over five years to meet demand. Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told BBC Breakfast that while the changes couldn’t be made “overnight”, a Labour government would immediately start “reversing the trend” of increasing class sizes and lack of spending seen under the Tories.

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