Conservatives 'literally rewriting history'
History lessons in English schools make no mention of the Blair-Brown administrations, or the post-war Labour government which brought in the welfare state and NHS, says Rupa Huq.
In a personal film for the Daily Politics series, the Labour MP claimed it was "dangerous to deny that these things ever happened" and she argued there was a pro-Conservative bias to what was being taught with a risk of "brainwashing our kids".
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