Yesterday Guido revealed that in a 2018 speech Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner vowed to abolish private schools altogether. A Labour spokesman hit back at the story, calling it “more desperate nonsense from the Tories and completely misrepresents what Angela actually said“. That strikes Guido as an over-enthusiastic denial… 

In 2019 Rayner gave her support to a Labour conference motion which called for all funds and properties held by private schools to be “redistributed democratically and fairly” to other schools and for private schools to be converted into comprehensives. Democratically, fairly, mandatorily…

Rayner justified her enthusiastic support for the forced expropriation of private schools – “It means that no longer can taxpayers’ money go into private institutions that they squirrel away to help the 7% of our country do well when they’re at the expense of everybody else.” How much longer can Labour’s deputy leader pretend that she doesn’t want to completely abolish private schools?