Labour's plans to impose a 20 per cent tax on private school fees has been dominating middle-class dinner parties.
I’m currently spending half term with friends. We have eight children between us, and, as with every other middle class social gathering I’ve been at recently, talk has inevitably turned to schools – and Labour’s manifesto pledge to add VAT to fees at private institutions.
Our collective offspring cover the gamut of state and private pupils, and the post-dinner chat has become extremely heated at times. Whether true blue Conservatives, occasional Tory voters or never voted Tory in our lives, here we are, unable to talk about anything else.
