I don’t expect Sir Keir Starmer (Reigate Grammar School before it went private) is losing much sleep over the fact that Labour’s policy of slapping 20 per cent VAT on school fees is predicted to cause a stampede of children towards selective schools like the one he was lucky enough to attend. The policy may be vengeful, stupid and counterproductive, as well as deeply damaging to young people, of course, but, hey, at least it gives Starmer some red meat to chuck at the ravening class warriors on