The new home secretary has suggested that the government should reconsider its approach to welcoming international students.
Framed as fulfilling the government’s Brexit pledge to lower total immigration to the tens of thousands, Suella Braverman said at conference last week that the country should take “a more discerning, smart approach to the number of student visas” issued.
For advocates of international education, this feels like déjà vu. Similar immigration-related issues were raised during Theresa May’s time in the role, and later as prime minister.
These objections were wrong then, and they’re wrong now.
