Campaigners are hopeful that the widespread cuts to school funding across MPs’ constituencies will force political parties to face up to the issue in the run-up to the June 8 General Election. Pete Henshaw reports

Education unions are pushing hard for school funding to form a key part of the General Election campaign.

Britain will go to the polls on June 8, just two years after the last General Election and almost a year since the Brexit vote. The election campaign is expected to begin in earnest after Parliament is dissolved, most probably on May 3.

Prime minister Theresa May is seeking a larger majority in the House of Commons and a stronger mandate for her Brexit negotiations.

However, current school funding pressures mean that over the coming years the vast majority of schools across the country – if not all schools – are facing real-terms cuts to their funding worth hundreds of thousands of pounds (see panel, below).

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