Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has been accused of hypocrisy after playing hockey on a private school's AstroTurf hours before suggesting independent institutions didn’t "need" the pitches.
New analysis suggests Labour's tax on private schools could bring in less than half the expected amount because of the extra cost of adding more students to the state system.
Keir Starmer’s planned VAT raid on private schools is likely to breach human rights law because it singles out private education for the levy, a senior lawyer has said. The Left gets entangled in its own Blob.
Labour claims its Education Tax on private schools is to raise revenue for the state sector. But it's unlikely to do that – and no wonder when the policy's architect is clear that it wants private schools to disappear.
