Sack the minister, demand protesting students in furious A-level backlash
Daily Express|August 15, 2020
ANGRY protesters, including disgruntled A-level students, marched on Whitehall yesterday calling for the Education Secretary to be fired.
Mark Reynolds
Sack the minister, demand protesting students in furious A-level backlash

As the row over downgraded A-level results rumbled on, around 100 demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street, chanting “sack Gavin Williamson”.

Harry Mayes, from Stoke Newington, north London, missed out on a place at both his firm and insurance university places after receiving A, B and C in his A-levels.

The student, 18, who had been hoping to study neuroscience at Bristol, said: “I’m a free school meals student and it seems people like me have been lowered the most.”

Parents flooded social media with stories of despair.

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