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Labour's schools chief Angela Rayner today unveils her three-day plan to transform children’s lives.

First she’d reverse £3billion of Tory cuts to school budgets.

On day two she would draw up plans for a Sure Start centre for early years youngsters in every community – a third have closed under the Conservatives.

And on the third day she plans a recruitment drive to get demoralised teachers back into the profession they left.

Mrs Rayner said: “You’ve got head teachers buying Smarties for children and getting parents to fill the tubes up with money.

"This is the 21st century in one of the richest countries in the world. It shouldn’t be happening.

“Schools will get the money they need to make sure no teacher is made redundant.

"We’ll increase corporation tax to give the schools the funding they need.

“And Sure Start centres are an absolute lifeline for our communities.”

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She is driven by the example of her own mum who could not read or write: “I wasn’t school ready.

"Books weren’t a thing in my house. Mum couldn’t help me with homework.

“I was already held back. Early years children must have all those opportunities.”

Figures last year showed almost a third of new teachers who started jobs in English state schools in 2010 left within five years, many due to the stress of increased testing.

Mrs Rayner’s message to them is: “We appreciate you and we’re going to look after you so please come back.

"We’re going to help you do your job.”

Mrs Rayner believes next week’s manifesto will rival Labour’s 1945 offering which paved the way for the creation of the NHS and led to Winston Churchill being voted our of office.

She added: ”The manifesto that you’ll see next week is better than our 1945 manifesto. It will transform the country.

“The post- Brexit Britain we want and that people are asking for is about giving their children a better future.

“It’s about the things they hold most dear, like looking after our elderly and most vulnerable.

“This manifesto is for them.”