A Labour MP has launched an expletive-laden rant towards Theresa May and Philip Hammond after her son’s school said it was planning to close early on Fridays to save cash.
Jess Phillips told the Prime Minister and Chancellor to “f*** your little extras” after receiving an email from the school detailing the plans.
Her remark referenced Mr Hammond’s comments in last year’s Budget, in which he announced a one-off payment of £400 million to English schools to “buy the little extras they need”. The comment was labelled “patronising” by furious school funding campaigners.
Ms Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, tweeted a screenshot of an email from her son’s school reading: “We are proposing to close early to pupils on Fridays (1pm), with effect from September 2019.
“The measure will mean that we can make savings by reducing the number of teachers employed by the school and reducing hours worked by support staff.”
The letter from the unnamed school continued: “I deeply regret the negative impact of this proposed measure on pupils, staff and families, an impact which is being experienced by a growing number of schools in our city.”
The school also said it was having to consider its provision for children with "complex needs".
It prompted Ms Phillips to tell Mrs May, Mr Hammond and education secretary Damian Hinds in separate tweets to "f*** your little extras".
She also invited Mrs May to visit her constituency on Fridays to pick her son up from school at 1pm.
It is the second time this week Mrs May has come under fire over funding, after she insisted on Monday that there was "no direct correlation between certain crimes and police numbers".
