Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 3 June 2021

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1. PM’s school tsar quits

Boris Johnson has been accused of failing hundreds of thousands of students by the expert he appointed to lead the coronavirus recovery in schools. Kevan Collins yesterday said that he had “no option” but to resign after the prime minister rejected his proposal for a £15bn package to provide extra time and teaching to catch up on lost education over the next three years. Writing in The Times, he accused Johnson of “failing a generation of children”, adding: “The support announced by government so far does not come close to meeting the scale of the challenge.”

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