Filmed for Channel 4's Political Slot and originally broadcast on 19th February 2019, Helen Grant MP talks about the importance of apprenticeships in modern Britain.
I am especially proud of our Maidstone Apprenticeship Fair which was first organised by myself and my colleague and neighbour Tracey Crouch MP in 2018. It was attended by Skills Minister Anne Milton along with over 600 students from 16 schools across Maidstone and the Weald and Chatham and Aylesf
When I was a young girl at primary school, I remember our class reading a book called the Silver Sword, by Ian Serraillier. Based on fact, and set in 1940 in occupied Poland, it is a reminder of a terrible past that must not be forgotten.