Colin Hall will be leaving Holland Park school which has also been embroiled in claims about a ‘toxic’ working environment

One of the UK’s most highly paid headteachers is to leave his role at a leading academy after 21 years. Colin Hall’s departure comes at a turbulent time for Holland Park school which has faced a string of incendiary claims about a “toxic” working environment and failings in student safeguarding.

Parents at the London secondary, where pupils include the children of housing secretary, Michael Gove and former Commons Speaker John Bercow, were told that Hall would be leaving after more than two decades at the helm of a school once known as the “Socialist Eton”.

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