UK Department for Education papers show £1.2 million was spent on helping Katherine Birbalsingh, the headteacher of Michaela School, to launch a second school in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Ms Birbalsingh says the Covid pandemic prevented the plans for the second school going ahead. (Via PoliticsJoe)

Ordinary person of Southport here, saying enough time has passed. Your project is a failure. Return the cash.

so...where did all that money go? You have to really hope that there are prosicutions in the near future for misuse of public funds

Great Scott. The funds the conservative party have wasted on some of the cruelest of projects!

Probably a good thing it never happened. She’s a very odd educator and I wouldn’t want her anywhere near my kids.

So who’s got the money now?

There need to be Neuremburg type trials and all Tories brought to account.

That needs to be paid back immediately, and whoever signed it off never to be allowed to hold public office again.

So where’s the money - and four years’ interest?

Disgusting waste of money. The tip of the iceberg unfortunately

As with stuff like the Garden Bridge this will have disappeared into various “consultants” and “advisers” pockets. The future employment of government ministers and others involved by those self-same consultants will be entirely coincidental and not corrupt in any way. Oh no.