Why should the taxpayer be subsidising the richest in society to go to better schools than everyone else?

So you don’t have an answer, you just don’t like Labour.

It's silly to want someone to be able to explain why they think a policy is a good idea? Cmon...

It's not about penalising anyone - that's a childish framing.

It's applying the same tax that everyone else pays for services, to a service predominantly used by the rich - that's literally it, and you don't seem able to offer a proper argument as to why it should be subsidised to begin with.

for the interest of balance

1. fees won't go up by 20%. As private schools are deemed charities they cannot reclaim VAT in purchases. Once they are VAT eligible it will work both ways. By reclaiming VAT it will offset the VAT they will need to charge, so i suspect fees will go up c10%

2. based on No1 the number moving to state education is massively reduced

3. The state sector is actually suffering from a pupil crisis as there are not enough kids being born and therefore going into the school system. If you had a school that say can hold 1,000 pupils there are a lot of fixed costs associated with running that school. If that school has say 800 kids the fixed costs are unchanged.

4. on a general point why does a business, which a private school is, have charitable status anyway? Surely this is wrong and needs changing

Really?

Are Labour going to tax private education or not?

How much money will that make?

Simple question.

You are dressing this up as 'fairness'.

Pretending that somehow VAT on private education is all about the greater good.

Utter crap.

It's all about ideology from a party who will never change from being jealous hypocritical lefties.

Debate that.