Dour moods in the schoolyard this morning as Bridget Phillipson claims that Labour’s levying of VAT on private schools will force them to make cutbacks along with everyone else. A strange thing for the party of aspiration to say…

“I think private schools could really be looking to make some economies, everyone’s had to cut back in recent times and I don’t think private schools can be immune from some of that”. 

Meanwhile Phillipson claims that the policy will raise £1.5 billion for investment in the state sector. Ignoring that the government will end up having to shell out £400 million a year to pay for all the newly enrolled state school kids resulting from parents no longer being able to afford private education…