Tories slash Surrey education funding by £250 million

Conservatives will cut the education budget by £253 million in Surrey by 2020 if they were in national government on their own, official research shows. The Tories would be forced to slash local spending on schools,colleges, and nurseries to keep pace with George Osborne's plan to drastically reduce spending. The research, based on official House of Commons library figures, shows schools will bear the brunt of Conservative cuts but childcare, college and early years budgets would also be hit hard. Unlike both Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are committed to protecting cradle to college education spending.