Balanced News: Rishi Sunak’s constituency schools kept afloat by vicar volunteering as bus driver

Rishi Sunak’s constituency schools were kept afloat by vicar volunteering as bus driver. Rev Jeff Payne volunteers to act as the bus driver after two rural schools merged to remain viable and needed a driver to ferry children between the sites. The schools, which are about three miles apart, are in Leyburn, a parish in Rishi Sunak’s constituency of Richmond, North Yorkshire. Inspectors found that pupils “love coming to school and attend well.” Keeping rural schools open is “vital” to Rev Payne.