Private schools have seen the biggest year-on-year fall in the number of pupils since 2010 thanks to Labour’s punitive VAT raid. Latest figures from the Department for Education show the numbers fell by more than 11,000 in January to 582,500 in England, a 1.9% decrease since last year. The tax was a nail in the coffin for many small independent schools, including one in Reeves’ own constituency…

That number is far from the government’s naive prediction that only 3,000 pupils would be forced out of these schools in the first year. The figures from the Department for Education only include figures in England, though according to Independent Schools Council, the UK-wide number of private school pupils dropped by 13,000 in a year. Labour again vastly underestimating the fallout from the

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