Bridget Phillipson has been accused of fighting a ‘vindictive class war’ to ‘scratch a party-political itch’ over her tax on private school parents.
The Education Secretary was savaged by Tory shadow minister James Cleverly for ‘punishing’ families who use independent schools with the new VAT on fees.
It comes after The Mail on Sunday exposed how her family made a profit of 900 per cent on the council house she grew up in thanks to right-to-buy rules.
Labour is now legislating to make this much harder – leading to accusations of ‘pulling up the drawbridge’.
Today, Shadow Housing Secretary Mr Cleverly reignited the row
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