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Ed Balls grills schools minister on concrete crisis: 'You do not know the answer to my question’

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Watch Ed Balls grill schools minister on concrete crisis: ‘You do not know the answer’

Further pressure has been piled on Rishi Sunak over the crumbling schools scandal after Ed Balls grilled the schools minister live on Good Morning Britain.

The former shadow chancellor accused the government of not knowing how many schools are unsafe.

“You’ve just admitted to us that you still don’t know all of the schools that have got RAAC in,” the host told him.

Adding: “You don’t know the answer to my question, do you? There are schools that might be at risk and you don’t know.”

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