
Joe Nutt
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Author, essayist & international educational consultant in: @TheCriticMag, @TheSpectator, @Quillette, @AreoMagazine, @CSquireMagazine. Reads poetry.
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Bridget Phillipson has imposed a damaging tax on private schools ā yet hasnāt visited a single one in nearly a year. The Ministerial Code demands: š Evidence-based decisions ā but she hasnāt engaged with affected schools or parents. š Fairness and impartiality ā yet shows clear

Thereās much ignorance about how the HM Treasury education VAT gouge operates. Itās not a tariff on schools, itās a tariff on a class of parents who pay for but donāt use their state funded place. Those parents have various reasons & for many the state place is inappropriate.



Steve Lawrence HM Treasury My son went private because he wasnāt offered a State place. Had he been, heād have gone private anyway because the local state schools to us were failing. They should fix the state system. Thatās Bridget Phillipsonās job and sheās failing miserably.


Malvern College selling buildings and moving its prep school to manage the fall-out of The Labour Party's #EducationTax, which has cost £2m to date: £1m due to Business Rates and ENIC; £1m due to leavers and increased bursary costs. The impact of VAT has been passed on in full to






