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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Helen Coffey

The real losers from Labour’s VAT raid on private schools? The children

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Won’t somebody please think of the children?!”

I never expected to use this line – uttered hysterically by the judgemental vicar’s wife character on The Simpsons – in earnest. But the Labour Party’s latest proposal to add VAT onto private school fees might just force my hand.

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