Independent boarding schools provide much-needed stability for many children of service personnel. They ensure that pupils can continue their education disruption-free while their parents are deployed across the UK and overseas 🧵 (1/8)

"The Etons and Harrows and those super fancy places, they'll be fine." This morning, James Price joined Nick Ferrari on LBC to discuss the concerning proposal to impose VAT on private schools.

Bridget Phillipson Even a Labour peer has admitted that Labour VAT on school fees is ‘vandalism’ of the UK’s education system, with it likely to become a tax burden. msn.com/en-gb/news/ukn…

⏰ Time’s ticking! Stand up for education, parental choice. Let’s keep students in the schools they love and avoid adding pressure to state schools. Sign and share the petition now—every voice matters! 📚✍️change.org/p/stop-labour-…

Mad policy. Fair enough to remove charitable status from any schools which don’t do any charitable educational work. But the vast majority do. And the others can’t afford it. And UK Independent schooling is a huge export & global attraction for the wealth creators we need.

👀 Bridget Phillipson The Labour Party Rachel Reeves

Luke Sibieta Maxwell Marlow 🇺🇦 Luke Sibieta your 3-7% scenario was based on thin, old, sparse evidence, as you wrote. Hard, new and detailed evidence is coming thick and fast. Should government take account of facts? Or stick to what you observed from the 1990s, and in America? 9/ independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

YES! Many families are making choices due to the 20% tax on school fees—disrupting their kids education, changing jobs, taking on larger mortgages, or going into debt. It’s time to drop the stereotypes and listen to parents about the reality they’re facing. #EducationNotTaxation

⏱️ Time is running out! Sign and share the petition before it closes this week. Make your voice heard against this harmful policy. #EducationNotTaxation change.org/p/stop-labour-…

Another scheme funded by VAT on school fees! The list of promises just keeps growing. With no impact assessment and uncertain revenue, are parents’ school choices Labour’s new 'magic money tree'? Will state schools even benefit? #EducationNotTaxation The Labour Party Damian Hinds

The VAT on school fees policy is riddled with uncertainties, risking school closures, and burdening state schools. With potential revenue overestimated and a lack of clear impact assessments, it's time for a serious rethink @uklabour #EducationNotTaxation kroll.com/en/insights/pu…

Terribly sad news from St Joseph's Preparatory School in Stoke-on-Trent as they announce their closure. Education Not Taxation stjosephsprepschool.co.uk

"Sir Keir Starmer said during the general election campaign there was no reason to believe these schools would have to close"

Private Education Policy Forum Education Not Taxation The Independent It's awful for social mobility (1) fewer bursaries (2) what's left of private school gets even more exclusive (3) more pressure on preferred state schools (4) less per-pupil resources / more overcrowding in state schools generally.

👀 today 👇🏻 #EducationNotTaxation

This morning, the ENT campaign submitted our petition to Keir Starmer at UK Prime Minister on behalf of 200k+ signatories (and 600k children) against The Labour Party's plans to tax school fees. We urge Labour to meet with us to understand the effects this will have. #FindaBetterWay.

.House of Lords as a #parent concerned about Labour Party #Vat on #PrivateSchools ! I am not alone - listen in to who all have turned up to listen to #LordLexden leading the debate on the issue. More importantly why have they tuned up on a grey-wet day like this ? Why we feel so

David Wooding Bridget Phillipson Music lessons to remain VAT-free in state schools, but VATable in the very schools that already save the taxpayer £8-12k a year? And the privately-funded talent pipeline into our greatest cultural assets, which taxpayers subsidise to heaven and back? VATable too. Bonkers.

Campaigners have delivered a petition to Downing Street with 203,400 signatures calling for independent school fees to remain VAT-free, amid a House of Lords debate on the potential effects of the tax policy dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

#FindABetterWay to fix state schools The Labour Party Bridget Phillipson