Gavin Williamson

Opposition MPs and teachers have shared their shock at the decision to give Gavin Williamson a knighthood.

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Covid would have been “challenging for any education secretary”. Williamson’s tenure was “one of endless muddle, inevitable U-turns, and even threats of legal action to override local decisions”. Lib Dem education spokesperson Munira Wilson said people would be “outraged”, adding: “The only award Gavin Williamson should be given is the one for worst education secretary in history.”

How can Johnson be trusted to sanction Putin's oligarchs when he shows such contempt for UK by knighting terrible minister.

The foreign secretary wasn’t even entirely sure why she was in Lithuania. Other than that she had to be somewhere and she might as well be somewhere Instagrammable as be back in London. Then, the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia also looked as if they were wondering why she was there. Though not in a way that indicated she knew that it was her department that was responsible for imposing them. Unprecedented. She also went on to show the love for Channel 4 – another first – before singling out Chris Bryant as an example to us all in his steadfast opposition to Vladimir Putin. By now he was just a pool of water on the floor. Jack helped him out by informing him that the answer was a big fat zero. Or why the Suspect is so reluctant to clear the air by donating the £2m the Tory party has received from Lubov Chernukhin to a Ukrainian charity? The Ukrainians voted for a comedian and got a leader. Then Hinds did have the lost cause of trying to explain the government’s sanctions programme. And that by going after the money, he means pocketing as much of it as he possibly can. But somehow he’s worth a K. Short of sticking two fingers up to the country, Johnson couldn’t have made his contempt for the UK more plain. We in the UK also voted for a comedian and got exactly that. How else to explain why the UK has imposed sanctions on only 11 Russian oligarchs, while the EU has now squeezed 680 individuals and counting?