Bridget Phillipson has been accused by a former neighbour of ‘exaggerating’ her claims of a poverty-stricken upbringing.
The intervention comes after the Education Secretary described The Mail on Sunday’s revelation that her family made a 900 per cent profit selling their council house, as a ‘manufactured smear’.
Ms Phillipson, 42, told Times Radio their property in Washington, Tyne and Wear, was in a ‘terrible state,’ with no upstairs heating and rotten windows when her mother bought it under right-to-buy in 1990.
She added: ‘There was no prospect of there being any improvement in our living conditions unless [my mother Clare] took that decision
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