Founded in 1440, Eton has been educating Britain's elite for centuries. Can Labour take it over?
first prime minister and the current one were educated at Eton College. So were 18 others in between. Annual fees are £42,501 , which cushion an endowment of £436m. One in five pupils is the son of an Old Etonian. Around one in four will go to Oxford or Cambridge. Founded in 1440, the school has three theatres and three museums, as well as a rowing centre.
The campaign was supported by senior figures in the party, including John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, and Ed Miliband, a former leader. The Labour manifesto in 2017 had already committed to chargingon fees, which would raise them by up to a fifth. That idea has fairly wide backing.
This would nevertheless be a long way short of the schools’ abolition. Ms Rayner said she would set up a review into how to integrate private schools into the state system, but stopped short of explicitly backing the other two proposals—university quotas and redistribution of schools’ assets—required by the conference motion.
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