James Fitzgerald

@jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social

Senior UK Financial Services Reporter @POLITICO.eu Australian journo in London, originally from Adelaide/Tarndanya. - views & rants my own - - jfitzgerald@politico.co.uk

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.