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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Education Minister says his 'biggest fear' is private schools losing tax breaks

A Tory Education Minister has been branded "out of touch" for saying his "biggest fear of all" was Labour's plan to remove tax breaks for private schools.

Jonathan Gullis told a Tory conference fringe event that Keir Starmer's pledge to strip charitable status from independent schools to pour cash into state schools would create a “more elitist” system.

He argued the Government shouldn't “punish” the aspiration of middle-income earners, according to TES.

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