Lib Dem leader Tim Farron vows to hike taxes to cover £7billion extra funding for schools
Money for the plans would be made by reversing tax cuts and scrapping the Prime Minister's funding for grammar schools
The Lib Dems will today pledge a £7billion cash boost for schools - paid for by tax hikes on business.
Leader Tim Farron will promise to reverse cuts to frontline education budgets in the party’s manifesto.
The plans would plug a £3.3 billion hole in per pupil funding and a £660 million fund to do the same in colleges.
A further £1.26 billion would protect schools that are set to lose out from the Government’s reforms of school funding and the Lib Dems would plough an extra £1 billion to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland schools.
Mr Farron says his party would pay for it by reversing cuts to corporation tax, the married tax allowance and scrapping Theresa May’s funding for grammar schools.
Mr Farron said: “A landslide for the Conservatives would allow Theresa May to take parents across the country for granted and cut our schools to the bone.”