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In an interview with Sky News Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, has said that it is a tragedy that so many children will not be back in school until the autumn. Judging by the write-up from Sky’s Ed Conway , he was making a general point and not directly criticising his cabinet colleague Gavin Williamson, the education secretary for England, who is being blamed by some - at least in part - for the fact that schools have not found a safe way of opening.
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