A Labour government could face teachers’ strikes, union warns

National Education Union chief Daniel Kebede says Labour pledges are ‘a long way from the scale of change’ needed

A new Labour government could find itself facing a wave of industrial action by teachers in England and Wales if it fails to meet demands over pay and education funding, the leader of the UK’s biggest education union has warned.

Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), fired a warning shot over Keir Starmer’s bows, declaring that Labour’s current proposals on schools and education were “a long way” off the scale of change needed.