The gulf in provision for private and state pupils has never been starker. Who can doubt now that they entrench privilege?
Keir Starmer’s pledge earlier this week to end the lucrative tax breaks given to private schools has predictably brought out the usual critics.
The chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, Julie Robinson, told the Times it was wrong to “put politics before the interests of young people”. Presumably Robinson did not mean the interests of most young people – just the ones whose families can afford tens of thousands of pounds of school fees.