DEBATE: With Labour’s plans to scrap private schools, should the state have a monopoly on providing education? With Labour’s plans to scrap private schools, should the state have a monopoly on providing education? Maya Goodfellow, a freelance writer and author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats, says YES. Private schools are designed to give some children a leg up – if they weren’t, what would be the point of paying for [...]