Fact check: VAT on private school fees unlikely to increase state class sizes

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1. Emily Thornberry’s larger class sizes claim ‘not right’, Labour colleague says | Independent

2. Starmer distances himself from Thornberry comments on class sizes under Labour government | Independent

3. Labour chaos on plan to add VAT to private school fees as Emily Thornberry suggests the move would increase class sizes at state schools | Daily Mail

4. Labour’s Phillipson says Thornberry’s growing class sizes comment ‘wasn’t right’ | Evening Standard

5. State headteachers fear Labour private schools VAT could mean bigger classes | i News

6. Row over Labour’s private school tax raid as Bridget Phillipson insists class sizes will not increase | Independent

After Labour announced its policy to add VAT to private school fees on June 10, Labour’s shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry was asked on GB News how the party would deal with “injecting what is predicted to be up to 40,000 private school pupils into state schools” and replied: “If we have to, in the short term, have larger classes, we have larger classes.”