TEACHERS could strike this autumn if Labour fails to offer a funded and above-inflation pay award by June, the leader of Britain’s largest education union said today.

National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference voted to launch a formal ballot on strike action if the government’s final teacher pay and funding offer for 2025/26 “remains unacceptable.”

The Department for Education has said a 2.8 per cent rise would be “appropriate” and “maintain the competitiveness” of teachers’ pay in its evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB).