The head of a top private school has hit out at Labour’s Keir Starmer for his “ideologically driven” pledge to abolish tax breaks for independent schools.
Gareth Parker-Jones, headmaster of Rugby, says “the Labour Party is crossing an educational and political Rubicon” with a policy that “ignores the benefits” of independent schools by removing their VAT exemption. In an article for Spear’s magazine, Parker-Jones says many schools “would not survive”, and others would have to cut their bursaries.
