Under the move, around 90,000 pupils could be forced to switch to state school as parents would be priced out of paying for private school
GettyThe Labour Party has said private schools would no longer be granted charitable status under a Keir Starmer government, a move which Tories say would make them the preserve of "rich foreigners".Independent schools with charitable status are expected to pay back the VAT cut by offering bursaries to the less privileged or by sharing their facilities with state schools.
Some private schools currently charging £44,000 a year would hike their fees to nearly £53,000 a year without charitable status. Sir John Redwood, former head of Margaret Thatcher's policy unit, told the Daily Mail: "They are clearly trying to price people out of sending their children to private schools from the UK – it will become rich foreigners only.
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