Gavin Williamson tied new school funding to party vote, says Tory defector

Gavin Williamson accused of threat to cancel funding for new school in Marcus Rashford row

Gavin Williamson has been accused of threatening to cancel a new school in a Red Wall constituency if a Tory MP supported footballer Marcus Rashford's free school meals campaign.

Gavin Williamson accused of threatening MP Christian Wakeford over school funding

Mr Wakeford opposed government plans to not extend the free school meals scheme into the school holidays but abstained from the October 2020 vote.

Gavin Williamson tied new school funding to party vote, says Tory defector

Bury South MP says former education secretary warned disloyalty over free school meals vote risked losing new high school

Gavin Williamson accused of threatening MP over school funding

Christian Wakeford said ex-education secretary warned funding for new local school could be pulled if he voted against the Government.

Gavin Williamson accused of threat to pull school funding from rebel MP's seat

Christian Wakeford, the former Tory MP who humiliated Boris Johnson by defecting to Labour this week, identified the former Education Secretary as the MP who threatened to scrap the school

Gavin Williamson accused over threat to cancel new school

In October 2020 the footballer Marcus Rashford vented his despair at MPs voting down proposals to extend free school meals during holidays. He was not the only one. Christian Wakeford, then Conservative MP for Bury South, a few miles north of Rashford’s Manchester United home ground, Old Trafford, w