Deprived children in England will "pay the price" of the government's changes to schools, Kemi Badenoch has said as she accused ministers of "an act of vandalism". At Prime Minister's Questions, the Conservative leader argued that the government's Schools Bill would cut pay for teachers in academies, close down routes into teaching and block failing schools from automatically becoming academies.

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