Love this as a prevention case study:
- Low cost, even revenue raising in the short term
- Improves health outcomes and reduces costly hospital admissions
Shows political leadership is key:
- Politically costly for Khan to implement
- Did it despite cost savings landing outside GLA
Pesky reality getting in the way of Farage's narratives- Nowak murder: police accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This is such a beautiful piece on what it means to be “different” and how we should be locating the problem in the environment and the system, not in the child
Note that state school numbers are down 1.9% due to falling birth rates over the same time period so the fall in private school numbers attributable to VAT is at most 3.7%.