Rishi Sunak attacks Labour plan for VAT on private school fees

Rishi Sunak said Labour ‘don’t understand the aspiration that people have to provide a better life for their kids’. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak has accused Keir Starmer of stoking a “class war” by maintaining his vow to add VAT on to private school fees if Labour wins the next election, a move that Sunak said would “punish” affected parents.

The prime minister said Labour’s approach “illustrates that they don’t understand the aspiration of families like my parents who were working really hard”.