In the general election of 2015 only one main political party pledged to protect spending on schools and colleges in real terms: it was the Liberal Democrats. Perhaps they were hoping to get the UK higher up the international education investment table (Figure 1).
• Labour promised to raise the schools budget in line with inflation — but not in line with the expected 300,000 more primary pupils to be enrolled by 2018.
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