Cameron: Spiteful Starmer Is Taking a Wrecking Ball to Schools
3rd February 2026
Lord Cameron has accused Labour of taking a “spite-laden wrecking ball” to British education..
In a rare intervention, the former prime minister claimed Sir Keir Starmer was “systematically dismantling” reforms by successive governments that had made English schools world-leading.
The Tory peer also condemned Labour’s decision to scrap dozens of planned free schools in some of the country’s poorest regions, including one backed by Eton College, his alma mater.