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Boris Johnson was left in a “homicidal” mood and wanted to sack his education secretary over the exam grading fiasco during the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard.
The former prime minister admitted the system his government implemented to award exam grades to pupils who had not sat assessments “plainly let down a lot of kids”, after many children’s results during the pandemic did not reflect their abilities.
And he said the widely criticised system, established during the pandemic when pupils across the country had their education disrupted for months, is one of the things he “very much regrets”.
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