Any chance of actually seeing some policy proposals?

An utterly stupid policy by Sunak.  All the maths most people need should be taught by age 11 and in my experience was.  Most of the maths I was taught after age 15 was stuff like complex integrals over surfaces and Fourier transforms.  Very very few people need such so maybe what he wants is the futility of trying to teach the dimmer 17 year olds the 11 times table for the 156th time.  It ain't going to work and it's just a waste of resources.  Some people just don't get and never will get numbers.   

Really?

Used it over and over but then I was an engineer.

So can you give me an example of a typical problem which you need algebra to solve?

Have to go out now so I'll leave you with this anecdote from one of the best (and highly readable) management books I have ever seen:  What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School by the sadly late and massively successful sports agent Mark McCormack

'Two old friends once met on the street after not seeing each other for twenty-five years. One, who had graduated at the top of 
his class, was now working as an assistant branch manager of the local bank. The other, who had never overwhelmed anyone with his intellect, owned his own company and was now a millionaire several times over. When his banking friend asked him the secret of his success, he said it was really quite simple. ‘I have this one product that I buy for two dollars and sell for five dollars,’ he said.  ‘It’s amazing how much money you can make on a three per cent markup.’

 Wishful thinkers . 

Let's hope it's not Diane Abbott teaching them lol