THE incoming leader of Britain’s biggest education union slammed the government’s “mistreatment” of teachers and rising levels of child poverty today.

Daniel Kebede, who is set to replace Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney as the National Education Union’s (NEU) first sole general secretary in September, stressed education is the “great liberator.”

Addressing the final day of the union’s 2023 conference, he asked: “How can this country have a bright future when the government refuses to invest in it?”