Cameron vs. Sunak and the row over foreign students
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
David Cameron has accused Rishi Sunak of hurting Britain’s soft power and putting universities at financial risk with his threat to curb the visa rights of international students.
Rishi is desperate to see immigration numbers come down. But what will be the knock on effect of these curbs on our own students?
Later, an interview with Ukrainian and Arsenal footballer Zinchenko - and why is Lee Anderson sounding one mushroom
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | We will pass new laws to stop small boats. |
| 0:16.0 | We've introduced tough new measures today to help us stop the boat. |
| 0:20.0 | Because when I said at the beginning of the year that we would stop the boat, I meant it. |
| 0:24.7 | One of my five priorities is to stop the boats because I think the current system is both unsustainable and is completely unfair. |
| 0:31.9 | Rishi Sunak has barely been a week without telling us about his plans to stop the boats. |
| 0:39.6 | We know that. But right now, |
| 0:47.2 | he wants to stop the students. He wants to push ahead with curbs to overseas graduate visas. |
| 0:53.3 | And today, we're going to ask what the knock-on effect of that could be. Because a number of universities could quite literally go bust if the government |
| 0:57.8 | goes ahead with this move. It would please the right on the Conservative Party. But is it an act |
| 1:05.1 | of vandalism to our education system when we want to be a world-beating economy. Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:17.5 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And later, I have been interviewing Alexander Zinchenko, |
| 1:24.7 | the Arsenal left back, but also probably one of the most famous Ukrainians in the UK. |
| 1:30.7 | He's 27 years old. He's not going out to nightclubs and getting drunk every night. |
| 1:35.7 | He is concerned about what is happening in his own country and has an enormous weight of |
| 1:41.9 | responsibility on his shoulders. He is fascinating about being a |
| 1:45.7 | professional footballer, but also about what is happening to his country. That is to come, but we're |
| 1:51.4 | going to start with the whole question of student visas, which has suddenly got very political. |
| 1:57.8 | After what we understand to be an intervention by the Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, |
| 2:03.3 | warning his own Prime Minister, our Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, |
| 2:07.6 | that universities are going to face certainly job losses and possibly closure |
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