Badenoch apologises for local election results as Reform warned there are ‘no simple answers’ – UK politics live

<p>Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/may/03/what-will-labour-do-next-local-elections-reform-uk-left-right">‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?</a></li></ul><p>Headteachers are taking legal action against <strong>Ofsted</strong>, <strong>England</strong>’s schools watchdog, over fears that its new inspection regime is “even worse than before” and likely to harm the mental health of school leaders.</p><p>The <strong>National Association of Head Teachers</strong> said it had lodged a claim for a judicial review against <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/ofsted">Ofsted</a> “over the potential impact of their inspection proposals” and for inadequate consultation over its new system of grading schools.</p><p>Somehow the focus on school leader mental health and wellbeing has got lost along the way during Ofsted’s consultation process.</p><p>We must not forget that the catalyst for these changes was the tragic death of Ruth Perry and widespread acceptance that the inspection regime was placing school leaders under intolerable pressure. However, there appears to have been very little thought given to the impact on the wellbeing of school leaders in the drawing up of these plans and the consultation that followed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/may/03/uk-politics-local-election-results-reform-labour-conservatives-latest-news">Continue reading...</a>