Labour have not hired any new teachers thanks to their tax raid on private schools. Guido is old enough to remember that Labour claimed the punitive tax would help fund 6,500 new teachers…
Asked how many extra teachers have been recruited as a result of VAT raised, education minister Baroness Smith couldn’t answer:
“HM Treasury published a Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) on applying VAT to independent school fees. The TIIN estimates that, accounting for the spending implications of any pupil movement into the state sector, the policy is expected to raise £1.7 billion per annum by 2029/30.”
Meanwhile one in five private school teachers say they have had colleagues made redundant due to Labour’s VAT on fees. School’s out…
Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones told the Today Programme it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ to ask whether or not David Lammy was shopping prior to DPMQs instead of trying to sort out the released prisoner:
“He was preparing for Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions. He was preparing to stand in for the Prime Minister, the first ever black person to do so… He cracked a joke because his poppy had fallen off this suit, which he also addressed during the Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions… I don’t think it’s appropriate to get into the weeds of if he was shopping or not in the morning.”