Will UK schools recover from Covid?

In light of Boris Johnson’s announcement of a ten-year government rebuilding programme for crumbling schools, last week’s tuition programme and the doubling up of ‘bubbles’ from 15 to 30 students, education has certainly been a hot topic in the UK press lately. Taking a cue from a debate taking place in Italy at the moment on the rules that schools will have to adhere with when they re-open in September, what might education look like on this side of the Channel following the Covid crisis? Also, how has education fared under a decade of Tory government?