内容摘要：He added: "I just wonder, are we just taking a responsibility for some of these children when parents are taking an easy option and just handing children over to us?

He added: "I just wonder, are we just taking a responsibility for some of these children when parents are taking an easy option and just handing children over to us?

Ms Gilruth acknowledged the attainment gap had widened, but said the pandemic had made closing it “more challenging”.“I am very clear that the status quo is not good enough,” she added. “There have not been the improvements we would like to see this year.”

Scottish Conservative education spokesperson Liam Kerr condemned the "chaotic and shambolic" exam results delays.He added: “The widening of the attainment gap continues to shamefully let down pupils from our most deprived backgrounds."Pam Duncan-Glancy, Scottish Labour education spokesperson, said the anxiety caused to young people by delays was "unacceptable".

These exam results don’t make great reading for the Scottish government.Grades are down compared with last year. They’re more in line with pre-Covid figures.

The education secretary has labelled that “not good enough” – that’s strong language for the minister in charge of education to use on results day.

But it's the attainment gap figures that will be particularly uncomfortable., which has been criticised by some Labour MPs.

Labour Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan said he understood the "context" in which the government had announced its new migration measures, but he would not have used the phrase "island of strangers" himself.Downing Street said Sir Keir stands by his words and "the argument he was making that migrants make a massive contribution to our country, but migration needs to be controlled".

An athlete has become the fastest and youngest man with an intellectual disability to complete a marathon.Angus Leckonby, who is autistic and lives with verbal dyspraxia, broke the two Guinness World Records during the London Marathon on Sunday.