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REVEALED: the full, devastating impact of Labour’s VAT raid on private schools. Over 16,000 pupils have left private schools due to VAT on fees. Where Labour said 3,000 would leave by July, it is now even more certain that this policy is loss making. telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/deva…

@RemoaningW 🫶🏽 can’t believe it! I’ve read it and it is currently on my bedside table… great minds think alike! I’m now reading Brave not Perfect by Reshma Saujani - Fear less, fail more, live bolder. 👸🏽

Finally reached the top of my pile @vickygrayson_ I’m going to consciously try to #bemorequeenvictoria. 👑 🙌 👊

@oldishbird1 @Alexarmstrong @GBNEWS Are you saying under the Tories, polygamous marriages could claim for unlimited children? There are only 10 families that benefit? So why all the fuss? The women would be entitled to benefits for their kids like single mums would.

@vickygrayson_ @Alexarmstrong @GBNEWS Rubbish. The payment of benefits in respect of polygamous marriages affects about 10 families. It doesn’t affect new claimants as UC doesn’t allow for it.

Polygamy in Britain: 🧑‍🧑‍🧒A husband with 4 wives could claim over £70,000 in benefits. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒A husband with 11 wives could claim over £170,000 in benefits. Analysis by the Conservatives. On @GBNEWS Breakfast. Cabinet Minister told me they will look into this 👇

@oldishbird1 @Alexarmstrong @GBNEWS A husband with four wives could only claim benefits for two kids per wife under the Tories. A husband with four wives can now claim benefits for unlimited kids per wife under Labour. It’s completely different now. Could do quite well with lots of wives and children these days.

@vickygrayson_ @Alexarmstrong @GBNEWS ? What relevance does that have

@oldishbird1 @Alexarmstrong @GBNEWS Probably because the two child benefit cap has been removed?

@Alexarmstrong @GBNEWS This has been the case since at least 1988, so for the entire period of the last Tory government. It only applies to legacy benefits and pays out less than if claims were made individually. Perhaps the Conservatives would like to say why they are only whining about it now?

@TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 @suttontrust @PEPForum @AbolishEton Steve has blocked me but still hootering and hollering from the wings. Clearly his school didn’t teach him manners. All I did was share an extract from a review on Amazon about his book. A real life misogynist.

@TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 Another bad faith actor using “research” as an excuse to be unpleasant about a group of people they don’t like. You are now the third person on this thread he’s said should get a refund on fees. Like I said, @suttontrust is now the same as @PEPForum and @AbolishEton

Class bias still shapes business: Only around a third of FTSE 100 CEOs educated in the UK went to a state comprehensive. For Chairs, it’s closer to 1 in 10 - despite 90% of us going to a state comp! New US research offers a clue why. Investors perceived privately educated CEOs as more competent and “safer”, even when performance and risk profiles were no different. Interestingly, the bias weakened once investors had more actual evidence about performance. In other words, where information is limited, social signals (aka class bias!) still dominate judgement. How many talented leaders are still overlooked because confidence, polish and private education are still read as proxies for competence? @suttontrust

@PeterTCross @StufferSuitcase @NickHarrison73 I think this happened when the founder, Sir Peter Lampl, retired. The Sutton Trust has now been taken over by bad faith actors with an axe to grind. Like I said, no better than the @PEPForum or @AbolishEton at this point.

@StufferSuitcase @NickHarrison73 Radical is the correct word.

@TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 @suttontrust @PEPForum @AbolishEton Social mobility in real time. No one has suffered disadvantage like Euan. Not content with a state school cherrypicking privileged white boys, his PM dad wheeled in private tutors from Westminster. Starmer Jnr has the same disadvantage lined up at Lord Alli’s revision studio.

@vickygrayson_ @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 @suttontrust @PEPForum @AbolishEton A refund on my fees would be a very healthy tax rebate - glorious I shan't need it any way. My son at PS is likely to do much better than Euan Blair who managed through sheer hard work to land government contracts to become a multi millionaire. What a state school success story

@NoVATonschools @GuyEmma68700 @TheScholar44 @serenelyjoyful @Steve__Paxton @NickHarrison73 As @policy_uk pointed out, if more grammars had survived then there would have been fewer private schools and far more children in the state sector. Instead, parents not wishing a comprehensive education for their kids are now punished with tax.

@vickygrayson_ @GuyEmma68700 @TheScholar44 @serenelyjoyful @Steve__Paxton @NickHarrison73 I would have loved to have sent mine to a grammar - both would have gotten in. Unfortunately we’re not privileged enough to live in the right postcode!

@TheScholar44 @serenelyjoyful @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 Nick has even highlighted this fact. 176k kids in grammars. 14% of CEOs went to grammars. 550k kids in private. 18% of CEOs went to private school. But for some strange reason we need to point the finger at private schools. Bright kids go on and do well. That is the story.

@serenelyjoyful @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @vickygrayson_ @NickHarrison73 Oxbridge will take bright kids A kid with scholarship at an academic PS will be bright A kid at a super selective grammar will be bright The latter group are way more over represented at Oxbridge and in senior positions i fail to see how PS are deemed an issue in this regard

@serenelyjoyful @TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 Whether the school is highly selective by ability, or highly selective by wealthy catchment area, the outcome is the same. Pretending that it’s only private schools funnelling kids to Oxbridge ignores the many grammars and top comps doing the same.

@TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @vickygrayson_ @NickHarrison73 Exactly, the over representation comes from the highly selective A kid that wins an academic scholarship at a major PS is almost nailed on for Oxbridge Essentially, they have been preselected

@Liberalscribble The whole piece of research Nick is referring to was conducted in the US based on US private schools and US CEOs. Their education landscape is completely different to over here but Nick is acting like it’s the same thing. Very disingenuous.

Once again the 'studies show' clownery appears in education and social class research. Drill down further and you'll find it's family/social links not the type of school. Alumni of provincial private day schools with no connections are also excluded. Read Pierre Bourdieu!

@NickHarrison73 The research you are referring to was conducted in the US about US CEOs and US private schools. Completely different landscape to the UK. Why are you conflating the two? Also you missed reference to the fact that you are one of the 25% of Oxbridge CEOs. Why were you hired?

We would probably all agree we want the best talent leading our biggest companies. But our Elitist Britain research found only around a third of FTSE 100 CEOs educated in the UK attended a state comprehensive school, and around 1 in 10 Chairs did - despite the fact that 90% of us went to a state comp! This isn’t just about who gets through the door early in life. Class bias appears to persist all the way to the top. A recent US study found investors viewed privately educated CEOs as more stable and competent — despite no meaningful difference in company performance or risk. The advantage came from perception, not evidence. And the gap narrowed when investors had longer track records and more scrutiny to rely on. That should concern anyone who cares about fairness or economic performance. If boards, investors and head-hunters systematically overrate privately educated candidates, we are wasting leadership talent on a huge scale. @suttontrust

@TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 😂 What if I want to buy Steve’s book? Will he still sign it for me?

@TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 Might be pushing it a bit calling Steve an “intelligent published author”.

@TheScholar44 @Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 The majority of wealthy families are in the state sector.

@Steve__Paxton @vickygrayson_ @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 correct the hate on PS is largely misdirected. the school type has little to do with outcomes, save for signifying a common type of user. the majority of that type use state schools

@Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @TheScholar44 @NickHarrison73 Which comprehensive are you referring to? Important to look at the detail. Thanks.

@GuyEmma68700 @vickygrayson_ @TheScholar44 @NickHarrison73 Here's a nice 3 bed house in the catchment area of the 11th best comp in the UK. A bit cheaper than your £1m+ rightmove.co.uk/properties/172…

@Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @TheScholar44 @NickHarrison73 The conversation therefore makes no sense. You are including top selective private schools with private schools that don’t select and have never produced a single CEO. Then including comps where children are leaving with 0 GCSEs with comps where 40% get offers from Oxbridge.

@GuyEmma68700 @vickygrayson_ @TheScholar44 @NickHarrison73 When the conversation is about outcomes from comprehensive schools as a category, with no finer detail, then the conversation isn't about the top 200 comprehensives.

@Steve__Paxton @TheScholar44 @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 What data? The data Nick is referring to is based on US CEOs attending private schools in the US. Not UK CEOs attending private schools in the UK. The US education landscape is completely different to the UK education landscape, and Nick shouldn’t conflate the two.

@vickygrayson_ @TheScholar44 @GuyEmma68700 @NickHarrison73 This data isn't saying that - you'd need more detail to reach that conclusion.

@Steve__Paxton @GuyEmma68700 @TheScholar44 @NickHarrison73 You should probably let Nick know. He just said “90% of us that went to state comps” when we all know that not all comps are equal. I suspect you’ll see a fair few CEOs coming out of the top comprehensives.

@GuyEmma68700 @vickygrayson_ @TheScholar44 @NickHarrison73 FYI the category of "went to a top 200 comprehensive" is 100% irrelevant to this conversation.