Commenting as Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said:

"It is vital that the government's ongoing turmoil does not get in the way of addressing the urgent real-world challenges facing education. Spiralling costs and a lack of pay and funding are damaging schools, forcing staff out of the profession, and having a negative impact on the education and wellbeing of children - that has to be the government's urgent focus."