Liz Truss has been slammed for claiming she was the first Prime Minister to go to a comprehensive school in her Conservative Party Conference speech today.
Addressing the audience in Birmingham, the Prime Minister told of how she had experienced sexism growing up as a child and how she was lucky that her family 'valued education and enterprise'. She continued: "And I stand here today as the first Prime Minster of our country to have gone to a comprehensive school."
However, this is not the case - as people have figured out on Twitter. Ruth Cadbury, Labour MP for Brentford & Isleworth, said: "In the Prime Minister's conference speech she says she is the 'first Prime Minister of our country to go to a comprehensive school'. Yet Gordon Brown went to Kirkcaldy High School- a 'comprehensive state school' according to a quick search on the internet..."
