Winchester College was mentioned in Prime Minister's Questions today (November 30) in a debate over tax breaks for private schools.

Sir Keir Starmer took aim at the Rishi Sunak's old private school asking why it receives “taxpayers’ money”.

He said: “Winchester College has a rowing club, a rifle club, an extensive art collection, they charge over £45,000 a year in fees. Why did he hand them nearly £6 million of taxpayers’ money this year in what his Levelling Up Secretary (Michael Gove) calls egregious state support?”

Mr Sunak said he was “pleased he wants to talk about schools, because we have recently announced billions more funding for our schools”, and later added: “Whenever he attacks me about where I went to school, he is attacking the hard-working aspiration of millions of people in this country, he’s attacking people like my parents.

“This is a country that believes in opportunity not resentment. He doesn’t understand that and that’s why he’s not fit to lead.”

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Earlier in the debate, Sir Keir said: “Every week, he (Rishi Sunak) hands out cash to those that don’t need it. Every week he gets pushed around and every week he gets weaker.

“But I can help him with this one, he doesn’t need to do another grubby deal. If he wants to defeat that amendment from his anti-growth backbenchers on national targets for housing, Labour will lend him the votes to do so. Country before party, that’s the Labour way. Why doesn’t he try it?”

The Prime Minister did not take him up on the offer and instead said it was the same “old” Labour ideas, with “more debt, more inflation, more strikes and more migration”.

He added: “He tells his party what they want to hear. I’ll take the difficult decisions to this country and that’s the choice, it’s the politics of yesterday with him or the future of the country with me.”