Top Boarding Schools ‘Increasingly Not British At All’
30th May 2026
Boarding schools are “increasingly not British at all” after a surge in the number of foreign students, the UK’s top educational philanthropist has said.
Sir Peter Lampl, the founder of the Sutton Trust, said British children were being “priced out” of boarding schools, with their places taken by international students.
Sir Peter, a former adviser to Sir Tony Blair, claimed this was partly a result of Labour’s “narrow-minded and mean-spirited” VAT raid on private schools, which had handed an advantage “to our foreign competitors”.