Growing regional education inequalities had contributed to the Brexit vote, claimed the Government’s Chief Inspector of schools, Michael Wilshaw. Regions were in danger of adding a learning deficit to their economic one. ‘If they sense that their children and young people are being denied the opportunities that exist elsewhere that will feed into the general sense that they are being neglected,’ he argued. ‘It wasn’t just about leaving the European Union and immigration, it was the sense of disconnection with Westminster.’20
