British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan After Monday’s outburst
Just when Conservatives may have thought it was safe to go back out into the political water, Keegan and her departmentThe Department for Education has already shown a strangely tone deaf approach to its PR handling of this whole affair, not least it’s failure last week to admit many more schools. A video question and answer session from Keegan, featuring some oddly upbeat music, was just a prelude to her hot-mic complaint that she was doing “a f**king good job” while others sat on their “arse”.
last year. Yet her subsequent interviews confirmed a combination of a thin-skinned defensiveness and dogged willingness to dig herself into further holes.