Who Paid Starmer’s Sixth Form (VAT Free) School Fees? – Guido Fawkes

Who Compensated Starmer’s Sixth Sort (VAT No cost) Faculty Charges?

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As Labour keep on to direct the struggle towards the injustice of… good educational facilities operated at no price to the state, Guido can get rid of but a lot more light-weight on their leader’s private college days. A report from the Surrey Mirror in 1974 explained that Surrey Council “agreed to commit £289,000 to safeguard the futures of all pupils moving into the Grammar University up to September 1975”. Sir Keir joined Reigate Grammar in 1974.

Which places the VAT exemption on college expenses which he himself is hoping to scrap in the shade Sir Keir benefitted from a taxpayer-funded non-public university free of charge-experience. To put Starmer’s schooling prices into context: £289,000 then would be truly worth £2,500,000 today…

In a new advancement, a former schoolmate of Starmer received in contact to say that, like Starmer, his expenses had been compensated by Surrey Council, while only up till he finished his O-Amounts. His mother and father experienced to stump up for his expenses when he commenced his A-concentrations in the sixth type. This would be regular with this contemporaneous report from the Surrey Mirror:

By Guido’s calculation Starmer was only in the 3rd form when the school grew to become independent. This raises the issue of how immediately after he accomplished his O-degrees in the fifth kind, his (VAT free of charge) expenses for his sixth kind A-amount several years had been funded. In the previous when Guido has raised inquiries about Starmer’s university a long time the Labour press place of work has come to be significantly evasive. Some clarity on this from Sir Keir is essential if he is heading to make the standing of independent college fees a political issue….