Should private schools get tax breaks?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer wants private schools to pay more tax. He's also talking about removing their charitable status. Today at PMQ's he asked the PM why Winchester deserved 6 million pounds to spend on rowing clubs and rifle clubs which could be going to fund the state sector instead. Is the country where Starmer is now - or does this policy represent a polemic talking point which creates more class warfare than cash? And what do head teachers think about it? Today, we hear from the state sector, the private sector , a former advisor to the government on education and a staunch progressive. Warning: there is nuance.
Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi
Social Media: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Production: Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | On today's podcast, we are going to talk about education. We are going to talk about schools. |
| 0:10.3 | We are going to talk about the independent sector, private schools, and whether they should |
| 0:15.2 | have to pay VAT on school fees or not. It's a big, weighty subject. But then when we started discussing it, among the news agents, |
| 0:24.6 | the conversation went off in a different direction. |
| 0:27.1 | We started talking about people leadership positions, |
| 0:30.5 | and it will surprise you, or maybe delete as appropriate, |
| 0:34.2 | it will not surprise you to hear. |
| 0:35.6 | But only right on one side of the paper. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah, SB in the margin. |
| 0:39.6 | Well, we asked about who had been a prefect on our team, who had had a position of responsibility. |
| 0:47.3 | Who ever got an enamel badge? |
| 0:48.7 | Who got the enamel badge on the blazer? |
| 0:50.9 | And John Soapel was not a prefect. |
| 0:53.9 | Nor got an enamel badge. Dino Sophos, not a prefect. |
| 0:57.6 | Emily Maitlis? Definitely not a prefect. Tom Hughes, not a prefect. But one of our number, Gabriel. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah, the youngest. The youngest. He was deputy head boy of his school. So he's the SWAT and we were the rebels, the naughty kids, the people that the teachers |
| 1:15.4 | absolutely hated. |
| 1:16.8 | I got sent out quite a lot for giggling. |
| 1:21.6 | I was an irrepressible giggler and I was told that it was a distraction and once sent from my drama class with the |
| 1:29.9 | words, I sent you out for pragmatic practicality, which I didn't realize at the time was complete |
| 1:35.0 | tautology. I didn't really understand it and I just carried on standing outside the door |
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