Private school fees should be taxed in the same way as eating in a restaurant, the shadow chancellor has said.
Rachel Reeves said “every penny” of the proceeds of Labour’s plan to levy VAT on independent school fees would be spent on state education.
Rishi Sunak accused Sir Keir Starmer last year of “attacking the aspiration of millions of hard-working people” by pledging to remove the charitable status of private schools. The policy would mean they would lose their VAT exemptions and would face paying business rates.
“You go into any state school and you see the shortage of staff, the shortage of books,” Reeves told LBC Radio.
