He said that society‘cannot thrive’ while education ‘is marked by cuts and inequalities’.
“It threatens our togetherness. Without a properly funded education system with values at its core, our long-term outlook is poor. This applies not only to the highest performing child but for all,” he added.
He said that Brexit ‘has divided the country’ and ‘we now need a new narrative’.
“There is a danger that there is a schism in our society into which the most vulnerable are falling. Austerity is crushing the weak, the sick and many others.
“Today in Britain we are suffering from a lack of such common values – values that have deep roots in our nation’s Christian history.”
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