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Middle classes support VAT on private schools, says Labour

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says parents have been priced out of private schools.

Many boarding schools charge more than 50,000 a year to send children to private school.

Phillipson said she would be the voice of pushy middle-class parents’ who would demand better from state schools’.

Phillipson said: “There’s no good reason why they should be passing on the full cost to parents’.

Independent Schools Council said its members were “in an extremely challenging position” The Carrdus School , near Banbury, Oxfordshire , confirmed this month that it would close in July next year .

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