Liz Truss's claim about being the first PM to attend a comprehensive school, fact-checked

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Liz Truss's claim about being the first PM to attend a comprehensive school, fact-checked
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Liz Truss proudly declared during her conference speech that she is the “first Prime Minister of our country to go to a comprehensive school” We fact-checked her claim ⤵️

that she is the “first Prime Minister of our country to go to a comprehensive school”.

However, Mrs May attended the grammar school Holton Park Girls, in Oxfordshire. It went on to become Wheatley Park Comprehensive School in 1971, while she was still attending. “I want to live in a country where hard work’s rewarded, where women can walk home safely at night and where our children have a better future.”During her speech Ms Truss claimed that “inflation is high across the world’s major economies”.

However, inflation is higher in the UK than in most other major economies, and the highest in the G7, due in part to the UK’s reliance on imported oil and gas and the declining value of the pound.

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