Dejo Spurs

[Charles Thyme @CharlesHThyme]

Surely, being exposed as a liar on social media in this way should be a resigning matter.

I know this is Labour, but still...

[Trader_007 @Trader__007]

Out of all the cabinet Phillipson is the most spiteful IMO.
Going after schoolchildren midway through the term and taxing education was nothing but damn right nasty.

[Richard @RedWallPleb]

Imagine looking at this car-crash Labour government and 49% of the room thinking "yeah, I want that on steroids".

Mental country we live in.

[Financial Times @FT]

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about the decline in the number of private pupils, sparking a battle over the impact of one of Labour’s flagship policies. https://t.co/Zf3MJo7qHj

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

Remember, Labour said the introduction of VAT of school fees was to pay for extra teachers.

There are FEWER teachers under Labour.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Labour doesn’t want us to know this. 👇

Bridget Philipson repeatedly lies that there are more teachers.

Her own department’s official figures prove there are fewer.

[FT UK Politics @ftukpolitics]

Private schools in England lose 20,000 pupils in first full year of VAT on fees https://t.co/yqH5yku9Zy

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Utterly ridiculous. 🙄

We live in an age of idiocy and low standards.

[rlmmh80 @OfficialLouRR]

This is deeply disappointing and appears entirely unnecessary. The closure of schools, the loss of jobs, and the resulting cost to the Treasury aka taxpayers. It raises serious questions about Labour’s decision making.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

BREAKING: Even Keir Starmer's Chief Secretary Darren Jones admits he doesn’t have confidence in Rachel Reeves to grow the economy.

Text messages continue to reveal what Labour will tell Peter Mandelson, but refuse to admit to the British people.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

This vile, fast-blinking, bob-haired commie is actually proud of a policy that has created chaos and misery for 30,000 families (800% more than they forecast/lied about) who have been forced to removed their children from independent schools.

Horrid individual.

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

How many new schools has the govt had to build to accommodate 30,000 pupils who had to quit private school because of Labour’s policy of hate of people with money?

[Gavin McCormick @GMcCor]

Many middle class parents make profound sacrifices to pay school fees. Unlike others, they do not spend this money on expensive houses in premium postcodes with outstanding state schools. Labour's VAT imposition has been a huge kick in the teeth to such parents.

[Robin Faustino-Stirling @Glazertwalker]

What this shows that lots of people were scrimping and saving to give their kids the best start in life they could.
And Labour took it from them, just because they could.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨Labour doesn’t understand the word free..

“Free school breakfast clubs” are costing the UK taxpayer £315 million a year by 2028/29 once fully rolled out across every primary school.

That’s your money funding the free meals.

[Peter Bedford MP @PeterABedford]

The lack of empathy from the Education Secretary on @LBC in response to the closure of so many independent schools and thus additional pressure on state schools is truly shocking.
An ideological policy driven from the mantra "what I can't have, you shan't have" 😡

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

For context, UCL's Institute of Education predicted last August that the impact of VAT on education would be 30,000 fewer private pupils *over 5 years*. This is year one.

[Russell Quirk @russellquirk]

Who could ever have predicted this?

Oh, wait. Everyone

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

You’ll be hitting another landmark and providing even more soon, give the rate that private school students are moving to / joining the state school sector, as a result of your ridiculous policy of envy.

🤡🌍

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

That’s an extra £265,500,000* cost to state schools already.

Politics of envy always backfire.

* average cost of educating a state school pupil is £8,850 per year. x30,000