It’s been widely reported (for instance in The Times) that the government is considering a cap on the number of foreign students allowed into the country as part of a drive to lower overall immigration.
This is clearly a panicked reaction to the news that net inward migration has reached an all-time of more than half a million souls.
Such a move would be economic vandalism, sacrificing one of the nation’s most successful methods of bringing in foreign cash on the altar of Brexit fundamentalism. Because make no mistake, the desperate dash to find ways to reduce immigrant numbers is essentially an attempt to disguise the truth that they have soared since we left the European Union.
