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You might want to scrimp and save, but this isn’t the time for that.

I was destined to scrimp and save and worry about money for the rest of my life.

“There are plenty of families at these schools who don’t go on foreign holidays, who scrimp and save to pay for children go to them because they feel it is the right thing for them – and that choice is now under threat.”

"It's very sad when you get to this sort of age, when you've paid tax and National Insurance for 50 years, and you still have to scrimp and save - it doesn't seem right," he says.

He grew up in rural Catalonia, where as a child his parents had to scrimp and save to buy the four-volume set of anatomy textbooks he now keeps on a shelf in his office.