Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn on stage at the Labour Party Conference (Picture: PA)

The Labour Party has voted to make abolishing private schools part of their election manifesto.

They would ‘integrate all private schools into the state sector’.

This would include withdrawal of charitable status and ‘all other public subsidies and tax privileges’, including business rate exemption.

The motion adds universities would have to admit the same proportion of private school students as in the wider population, currently 7%.

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said she will task the Social Mobility Commission – which the party would rename the Social Justice Commission – with ‘integrating private schools’.

She added: ‘We will set that commission to making the whole education system fairer through the integration of private schools.

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner gives a speech during the Labour Party Conference (Picture: PA)

‘Myself and John McDonnell will set out further steps the Labour government will take, but I can say today that our very first budget will immediately close the tax loopholes used by elite private schools and use that money to improve the lives of all children.’

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