Jonathan Lord

On 1 January, the 20% VAT break for private school fees will come to an end, enabling better investment in state education and helping to recruit 6,500 new teachers. Find out more by clicking the graphic below 👇

Treasury's own figures concede around 37,000 kids will leave private schools because of Labour govt' VAT hike. Where will they go in overcrowded state system?

Rachel from Accounts inherited the fastest growing economy in the G7 and now revised figures show that the UK economy showed no growth in the last quarter. Instead of blaming the Tories or a mythical £22bn black hole, she should resign. Not one good reason for her to stay.

“Graffiti workshops”

The Times view on Labour’s education strategy: the end of year prize for the most destructive agenda. Instead of building on the success of the last 14 years, Bridget Phillipson has sadly opted for transparently ideological policymaking with the soft bigotry of low expectations

I can't think of anything that the Starmer government has done to education that a Corbyn government wouldn't have done, a far-left agenda motivated by a mixture of spite and sentimentality and bound, in the long-run, to undermine economic productivity. Hopeless