Leading Jewish School Saved After Raising £12m to Fight Labour’s VAT Raid
25th April 2026
Britain’s leading Jewish private school will remain open after raising enough money to stave off closure following Labour’s VAT raid.
Governors at Immanuel College, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, said last week that “significant and sustained” financial pressures meant that the school would be forced to shut in August.
The £29,700-a-year secondary school blamed several factors, including Rachel Reeves’s employers’ National Insurance increase and her decision to add 20 per cent VAT to private school fees from January 2025.
Socialists want everybody to go to a government school (under their control. of course).