Prime Minister Boris Johnson has intervened to ensure 14-year-old Margot Scudamore and classmates at her Devon school can watch her father Tom ride at next week's Cheltenham Festival. So I think it is important…(as) an aspiring jockey myself that I should watch the Festival.' While the letter was not sent, Tom shared it online and it was picked up by Hexham's Conservative MP Guy Opperman. The result was a call from the Prime Minister to the headmaster of Chulmleigh Community College, Michael Johnson, and a letter to Margot. Tom said: 'Margot and her sister Myrtle (12) were told to see the headmaster.

Source: Daily Mail March 11, 2021 22:31 UTC