Schools and teachers have warned about the impact, but would it raise the money it hopes to?
Sir Keir Starmer has promised that Labour will remove the charitable status of private schools that makes them eligible for tax relief As part of its plan to break the “class ceiling”, Labour has pledged to end tax breaks for private schools, adding VAT at 20% to their fees for the first time.
Cancelling the northern leg of HS2 would be a “hugely anti-levelling up step” which would worsen the UK’s existing inequalitiesJustine Greening, who as Transport Secretary gave the go-ahead for the rail line in 2012, criticised the Prime Minister’s lack of ambition and said “chopping and changing” on major long-term policy decisions risked knocking investor confidence in the UK.
The ambition of an anti-Tory “progressive alliance” is at risk from bitter divisions between Labour and the Liberal Democrats in a key upcoming by-election. In Mid-Bedfordshire, the former constituency of Nadine Dorries, both main opposition parties are fighting to take the seat off the Conservatives.
Amid a diplomatic row between Canada and India over the killing of a Canadian Sikh in British Columbia, a Scottish Sikh councillor has called for supportGurpreet Johal, a lawyer and councillor in West Durbartonshire, said his friend Avtar Singh Khanda, a Sikh activist, died in June after becoming the target of a media campaign against him in India.
Russell Brand attempted to press on with his career as a fringe video content creator, less than an hour after the
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