Do Labour’s plans for Britain’s private schools make sense?
A proposal to charge VAT on fees arouses passion on all sides
For decades, on and off, the Labour Party has been promising to take a harder line on private, fee-paying schools. Before the general election in 2019 it pledged to explore ways of “integrating” them into the public sector. That idea has been dropped, along with one to strip private schools of their charitable status.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “How to spend it”
Britain November 4th 2023
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