Streeting assaults non-public faculties for ‘pleading poverty’ over tax raid

Wes Streeting has criticised private schools for “pleading poverty” over Labour’s tax raid on fees. 

VAT will be imposed on private school fees from January next year, prompting fears of a pupil exodus into the state sector. 

Mr Streeting was unapologetic about the move as he told LBC this morning that private schools will have to cut their cloth accordingly – just like state schools. 

The Health Secretary said: “I would just say to independent schools – you have hiked your fees up with inflation-busting increases, year after year after year since 2010, and now you’re pleading poverty?

“If you’re worried about whether children can continue to access your schools, you’ll have to cut your cloth in the way that state schools have had to do for over a decade.”

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Source: telegraph.co.uk