Chancellor Philip Hammond recently sought to bring a populist flourish to his Budget by splurging money on potholes.
This prompted purse-lipped teachers to point out that he’d found more money for tarmac than for another supposedly headline-friendly measure – namely, grants to schools to pay for those ‘little extras’.
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