France and Germany have hit out at Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to levy value added tax on private school fees, saying the policy risks forcing hundreds of children out of international schools and damaging diplomatic relations with the UK.
Hélène Duchêne and Miguel Berger, French and German ambassadors to London, told the Financial Times that fee-paying international schools in the UK, which are part-funded by overseas governments, were not “conventional” independent schools and should not be subject to the levy.
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