Labour has backed down from a plan to remove charitable status from private schools, but said it would still remove 'unfair' tax breaks.
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"This doesn't require removing charitable status, however driving high and rising standards for every child against the backdrop of a broken economy requires political choices.Julie Robinson, chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, was still critical of the plan. "We would love to work with Labour to build more effective ways to achieve our shared goal of improving education for all young people."Labour's policy costings only ever took into account charging VAT on school fees and ending the business rates exemption, rather than the other tax breaks.
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