Bishop’s Stortford College has confirmed the Labour Party’s General Election pledge to end VAT exemption for private schools has “impacted enquiries a little this year”. However, the Maze Green Road campus, which has 1,283 pupils aged four to 18 years including 185 borders, is also opening a new nursery class in September 2025 in response to demand. The Labour Party manifesto proposes an end to private schools’ VAT exemption and business rate relief, but it does not say it will remove their charitable status. The college is one of an estimated 2,500 private schools in the UK, educating about 7…
