Bridget Phillipson responds to Jonathan Gullis comments on private schools' charitable status

Bridget Phillipson MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to comments made at Conservative Party Conference by Schools Minister Jonathan Gullis, said:

“It says everything about this out-of-touch Conservative Government that the Schools Minister’s ‘biggest fear’ is a plan to fund state schools to better support the majority of children in this country.

“Voters already know exactly what side the Conservatives are on, after they crashed the economy by handing enormous unfunded tax cuts to those who earn millions and leaving working people to pay higher prices and mortgage rates for years to come.

“Labour will use money raised by scrapping charitable tax status for private school to fund the most ambitious state school improvement plan in a generation.”

ENDS

Notes to editors:

1.    The Schools Minister told Tory conference: "my biggest fear of all would be to remove the charitable status from private schools"
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