Gillian Keegan, Education Secretary, is under fire for blowing £34million revamping her offices. It comes schools struggle to stay open due to unsafe concrete and now she has been caught in a NFSW comment on live TV.
Gillian Keegan
ITV News Politics shared the clip and wrote: “Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’.
A lot of people said similar to this.
This morning Keegan had been called out for the government spending £32m on offices when schools are crumbling.
Carol Voderman also tweeted: “t’s all kicking off RAAC Gillian Keegan “does anyone ever say, you know what, you’ve done a f**in good job, cos everyone else has sat on their a**e and done nothing ” someone ask her in HoC 1. Does she REALLY think she’s done a great job? 2. Who’s been sitting on their a**e?”
Apology
“I would like to apologise for my choice language”, she has since said.
However, Keegan did not apologise for the broader point she was trying to make.
She said she had been frustrated when she spoke out by the interview she had just concluded with ITV because he had implied that it was all her fault.
Starmer
Asked if he thought Keegan should resign over her comment, Labour leader Starmer replied: ‘Rishi Sunak needs to act. Will he have the strength to act? I doubt it’ –
“@Keir_Starmer The Labour leader responds to comments made by the education sec, who said local authorities have been ‘sat on their a***es’ during the Raac schools crisis.”
Maria Eagle, Labour MP for Garston & Halewood, said the Conservatives were not known “for their self-awareness” or “connection to real life or humility.”
Christian Wakefield, the Bury South MP, said: “If this is doing a good job, I’d hate to see what sitting on your arse looks like.”
Barry Gardiner, the MP for Brent North, said: “So reassuring to know precisely what Gillian Keegan thinks of her predecessors: @kitmalthouse and @JamesCleverly”.
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