SCHOOLS in Enfield will get an extra £25 million if the Liberal Democrats are elected, the party has vowed.

The money, part of a £2.5 billion national pot, will focus on the poorest pupils, with the aim of raising their funding to private school levels.

The cash will be used to cut class sizes and provide one-to-one tuition or catch-up classes.

The party hopes the money will help cut the average primary school class to 20 and secondary school class to 16.

Edmonton Lib Dem campaigner Iarla Kilbane-Dawe said: “If you want to build a fair society, education is the key to it.

"That is why the biggest financial commitment in our manifesto is to our schools.

"Everyone knows money is tight, but this is a question of priorities.

"Our plans will put £25m into Enfield's schools, and headteachers will be able to use that money on a whole range of measures to help all pupils and all schools."

The Pupil Premium, set nationally, would be spent on the million children with the highest levels of disadvantage in the UK.

The party aims to introduce it in the second year of Parliament and pay for it from proposed reforms to tax credits, plus administrative savings from quangos and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.