he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
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down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy and crime, he said. so too will i introduce a curriculum fit for the digital age. so too will i fight for vocational training to be respected as much as university education, so too will i drag our education system into the future and shatter our class ceiling. not everyone was convinced. some protesters accused him of a u turn on environmental promises, and the conservatives claim his emphasis on improving speaking skills was all talk. it is all the way through the curriculum so that is nonsense. reading is the most important thing to get knowledge into children. through our reforms and improvements in standards, we are now fourth in the world for reading.