So the Migrant Advisory Committee, after a 14 week investigation has found 'no evidence' of any deliberate abuse of the international student visa scheme;
they're coming here to study.
As the FT delicately puts it:
this has 'placed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a bind, forcing him to either confront those on the Conservative right who want it scrapped, or ignore the advisory group'!
Watch this space.... which way he jumps will tell us a lot about the future of the (rump of) the Tory party
@ChrisMayLA6 there was no issue with voter fraud. Abuse of benefits, especially PIP, is vanishingly tiny. The impact of immigration is broadly positive. Trans people know who they are and are not a threat.
The Tories have shown time and again that they will happily twist or ignore evidence and plough on with their ideology, especially when there is performative cruelty involved.
@ChrisMayLA6 Of course Starmer could pip Sunak at the post by confirming a Labour govt would abolish them. Given his recent gallop to the right, anything is possible with him.
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