SCHOOLS and colleges will receive a £7 billion spending boost if the Liberal Democrats get into power.

The five-year package would reverse cuts to front line education budgets, the party insisted.

Lib Dem education spokeswoman Sarah Olney said: “Children are being taught in overcrowded classes by overworked teachers - but Theresa May doesn’t care.

“While funding per pupil is set to see the biggest cuts in a generation, billions of pounds are being spent on divisive plans to expand grammars and free schools.

“This extra £7 billion of funding would ensure no school and no child loses out.

Party leader Tim Farron said: “A landslide for the Conservatives would allow Theresa May to take parents across the country for granted and cut our schools to the bone.”

The Lib Dem education plan includes £3.3 billion being spent on protecting per pupil funding in schools, with £660 million used to do the same in colleges.

A further £1.26 billion would go to ensure no school loses out from the national funding formula.

He said the education spending pledge would be paid for by reversing cuts in corporation tax and getting rid of the married couples tax allowance.

Mr Farron, who today visited a primary school in Launceston, Cornwall, said avoiding a £100 billion loss to the taxpayer by not leaving the Single Market post-Brexit would give the party enough to spend on education and health.

Meanwhile, the party say HIV prevention drug Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) should be available on the NHS.

Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb said that in 2015, an estimated 101,200 people were living with HIV in the UK, and 594 people with HIV died while there were 6,095 new HIV diagnoses.

He said that the move would save money as a lifetime of HIV treatment costs up to £360,000, while a year’s supply of PrEP costs £4,330 per person.