The Long Read: “Scrap VAT below £11,000 fees”

Diarmid McKenzie, chair of governors of a small fee-paying school in Devon

“Less interference in state schools would encourage private schools with strong values to convert”

Priscilla Alderson, professor emerita at the Institute of Education, University College London and a Quaker Socialist Society member

“Want more poor students to go to top unis? Don’t segregate schools”

Professor Emma Tominey, Department of Economics, University of York