14-05-2025
Times letters: Fallout from Starmer's immigration proposals
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Sir, The government's proposal to introduce a levy of 6 per cent on foreign students is a bad copy of President Trump's chaotic trade wars ('Migration plan to curb 100,000 arrivals a year', May 13). The main difference is that rather than imposing tariffs on imports, the Home Office wants to impose shocking tariffs on our most successful export-related product: university education. Whether British universities directly pay this ill-advised tariff or pass it on to foreign students is irrelevant. University finances will suffer an enormous blow and academic job losses will intensify, while calls for bailing out our university sector will grow Costas MilasUniversity of Liverpool
Sir, Physicists will have smiled at Rhys Blakely's description of Cern's
