Outrage as Prestigious Private School Shuts Down After 106 Years Due to ‘Ideological’ Labour VAT Policy

A PRESTIGIOUS Cotswold private school is being forced to close due to Labour’s VAT hikes.

Rendcomb College, open for 106 years, announced in a letter to its doors will be slammed shut this summer.

The respected college – which holds 200 acres of land in – addressed that the school would not be “fin­an­cially viable in the future”.

bosses pointed to the “the eco­nomic situ­ation facing inde­pend­ent schools across the coun­try”.

The co-ed school – described by The Good Schools Guide as “idyllic” – has 380 children aged 3 –18.

It is a boarding and day school, originally founded in 1920 to provide free boarding education to about 40 boys.

Famous alumni include the former chair­man of David Tyler, historian David Vaisey, and retired National Hunt jockey Richard Dunwoody.

Saqib Bhatti, shadow edu­ca­tion min­is­ter, told The Tele­graph: “ is an ideo­lo­gical attack on aspir­a­tion and on people who work hard to be able to invest in their chil­dren’s edu­ca­tion.

“Every time a school is forced to close thanks to this tax, it means more chil­dren’s lives are dis­rup­ted and more pres­sure on the state sec­tor.”

In a state­ment on the school’s web­site, a spokes­man said: “The staff and gov­ernors have done everything to make Rend­comb Col­lege an excel­lent school, and its clos­ure is highly unfor­tu­nate but sadly unavoid­able.

“This is a very sad decision to have taken and fol­lows the explor­a­tion of every other feas­ible option, includ­ing mer­gers and other forms of funding.”

It comes as more than 100 schools have been forced to close since Labour began impos­ing

Eze Chidiebere Paul

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