Interview: 'We need a longer-term strategy to help disadvantaged pupils post-Covid’

In her first major interview since stepping down as an MP in December 2019, former Education Secretary Justine Greening tells Naomi Ackerman about life after parliament, education after Covid-19 school closures, and her mission to “level up” London.

Justine Greening deployed the now-famous phrase “levelled-up Britain” back in 2015 in an acceptance speech on winning her Putney seat.

The Conservative politician, who was the party’s first fully comprehensive school-educated Secretary of State, used the speech to set out her own "national priorities”, which included the need to deliver "a levelled-up Britain where everyone can achieve their potential wherever they start, wherever they're born".

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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/justine-greening-interview-london-level-up-education-covid-a4501586.html

Rt Hon Justine Greening

Founder, Social Mobility Pledge

Former Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women and Equalities, Secretary of State for International Development, Secretary of State for Transport, Economic Secretary to the Treasury