Labour Private Schools Tax Raid Has Already Cost Taxpayer £27 Million – Guido Fawkes

Labour Private Schools Tax Raid Has Already Cost Taxpayer £27 Million

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After Catholic Bishop Challoner School announced it was closing due to Labour’s private school tax raid, around 100 parents emailed Bromley Council asking to move to their child to a state school. Another casualty…

Guido has been running a rolling list of private schools that have been forced to close down since Labour’s punitive tax came into effect in January. Of the 33 schools that have announced closures or proposed closures, there were at least 3,351 private school pupils displaced. Not all of the schools provided a number of pupils…

As it costs councils an average £8,210 a year to educate a child. If all of those displaced students went to state school, the tab for the taxpayer would be £26.5 million. And that’s just the ones that have closed so far…