Clearly the ECHR court case currently being heard is driving more interest in this area but the news flow about schools closing, no more budget for education etc is also provoking a reevaluation.
Each school that closes reduces tax take by £100s of thousands as people lose their PAYE jobs & spend less in the economy - like the kids switching to state ghis wasn't in the financial model.
We read yesterday that SEND parents are going back to their Councils for their kids education whose solution is to offer to pay the VAT (ffs!) or switch the otherwise settled kids to special schools at greater cost (weve also read 20 councils now close to bankruptcy driven by SEND costs)
Labour have conceded that without the 100k SEND kids at private school (without an ECHP designated school statement) paying VAT, the policy becomes financially unviable - the reality ofcourse is that it's fiscally negative even without tapping up SEND kids
Of all the utterly mad & self destructive policies we've gone through in recent years e.g. Brexit, Rwanda etc - applying a sales tax on education is certainly up there with the worst - would expect many more threads - but so much damage has already been done