Last Saturday Bridget Phillipson, the Secretary of State for Education, posted this tweet (I'm still not sure what an individual post is called) to the social media platform X:
Despite misgivings from many who understand the long held political beliefs of many Labour Party members, to this point the Labour Government have maintained that the policy to add VAT on to independent school fees isn't about harming that sector, but purely about raising revenue for state school spending.
With over 6 millions views Ms Phillipson's post has caused some to question that stance.
But, once again, it is the accusation of hypocrisy that is levelled at Labour - who in opposition maintained that they would be different from the last Tory government.
It has taken the Daily Telegraph just four days to uncover that only five hours before posting her tweet the Secretary of State was playing hockey on an AstroTurf pitch at a local indendent school. The irony has not been lost that hockey is a sport that in many ways relies upon access to private school pitches for its growth, and its players benefit from. Will Ms Phillipson choose not to make use of those facilities in future?
Ms Phillipson also criticises independent schools for the use of embossed stationery yet anyone with a cursory knowledge of parliament will know that MPs personalised office stationery is always embossed, and now as a minister, departmental stationery too.
In her 14 years as an MP has Ms Phillipson ever made use of parliamentary embossed stationery? Will she be calling for its use to be ended and any savings made used to recruit more teachers?
It will be laudable if she does. But she find some ministerial colleagues are not particularly pleased with the idea.
It's becoming increasingly clear that in a social media world, and particularly with this Labour government, the media will always find a way to highlight perceived hypocrisy.