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'Trickle-down education is nonsense': Starmer calls on Sunak to tax private schools at PMQs

Guardian, 30 Nov 2022
Labour leader Keir Starmer called on the prime minister to end tax breaks for private schools in a heated debate in Commons at PMQs.
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'If he thinks the route for better education in this country is tax breaks for private schools, in the hope they might hand it down to state schools, that's laughable,' said Starmer. Sunak responded by defending the government's record describing Starmer's attack on his education and broader call to tax private schools as an 'attack on aspiration'.

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