Gillian Keegan is the face of the government's handling of the RAAC crumbling concrete crisis.
Gillian Keegan was little known outside Westminster until the government was engulfed by the crumbling concrete crisis. So who is she?
In a world of public school educated Oxbridge graduates, she is a woman raised in Labour's heartlands who left school at 16 to work in a factory, and can boast of 30 years of business experience, before she became an MP.But this is not the first time her forthright approach has got her into trouble. As a junior education minister shefor telling school leavers not to worry about A-level grades because "no one would be interested in their results in 10 years' time".
Nevertheless, she said "she really had to think about" becoming a Conservative as she was not a political person and it was "different" to the views of most people around her.The apprenticeship cycled her through different jobs across the factory, where she learned to "make people laugh" and find "the one thing we all agree on" - skills she says she has put to use in her political career.
In 2014, Ms Keegan got on the first rung of the political ladder, when she was elected to Chichester District Council - but it was a series of chance meetings that led to Parliament. In time honoured fashion, she stood for the Conservatives in the no-hope seat of St Helens South and Whiston, her home constituency, at the 2015 general election.In 2018, Ms Keegan spoke to the BBC about how she ended up in Parliament at the 2017 election
He appointed Ms Keegan as apprenticeship and skills minister in the Department for Education, making her the first former apprentice to hold the office.