BRITAIN’S young people are being failed by Tory lies designed to protect private profit and billionaires while school budgets are decimated, teachers warned today.

Children are missing out on educational visits, musical instrument tuition and other life-changing opportunities as Gillian Keegan “shrugs her shoulders and claims the cupboards are bare,” the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference heard.

The Tory Education Secretary praised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt for finding an extra £2 billion for primaries, secondaries and colleges in November’s Autumn Statement, but Redbridge NEU member William Stockwell urged her to check her working-out.