‘Labour’s new VAT policy is a threat to our Christian schools’

Hope Bonarcher moved her children from the USA to Scotland, her husband’s birthplace, for them to go to a small private Christian school. However with the new VAT bought in by the labour government, the school has had to close down as parents cannot afford the extra fees.

When our family made the decision to move to Scotland, the small, private Christian school run by my mother-in-law’s church headed up our list of reasons. From our comfortable living room in New York, in a rare moment not saddled with young children, I’d peruse the school’s website, drawn in by the cute tartan uniforms and smiling students in quaint classrooms. Many of the faculty’s faces familiar from our yearly visits at Christmas holidays.