Labour’s Care for Your Kids Education3 Apr 2025 09:56
“Labour deliberately chose the “most disruptive” start date for its VAT raid on private schools, internal Government documents reveal.
Court documents obtained show that the Government was still undecided about when to implement the sweeping changes two weeks before Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, announced they would hit in the middle of an academic year.
Ministers ultimately decided on the most disruptive course of action for schools in order to “maximise revenue”, The Telegraph can disclose.
The documents also show the Chancellor was warned eight months ago that the tax raid would probably lead to an extra 100 private school closures, despite ministers only making that estimated figure public last month.
Treasury officials emailed Ms Reeves and two other ministers just days after the general election last year with a “pros and cons” list about potential start dates for the tax levy.”
Why should we expect anything different from this lot ? 🙄