Policy Analysis

The VAT Raid's Real Casualties: How Labour's Education Tax Destroyed Working Class Aspiration While Handing Millions to Eton

Analysis of Labour's VAT on private schools reveals a policy that has backfired spectacularly, harming the very families it claimed to help while enriching elite institutions.

Six months after Labour introduced VAT on private school fees, the evidence reveals a policy that has achieved the exact opposite of its stated aims. While politicians promised to fund 6,500 new state teachers by taxing elite institutions, the reality shows working class families priced out of education, state schools overwhelmed by displaced pupils, and Britain's most expensive schools claiming millions in VAT rebates.