“I think what we’ve got to accept is that some universities may well go bust,” the Conservative MP and former home secretary Suella Braverman recently told the BBC’s Panorama. “They may well close. And I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.”
Braverman will be a frontrunner for the Conservative leadership if, as seems highly likely, defeat in July’s general election brings the ejection of Rishi Sunak. On Panorama, she was answering a question about the possible impact on UK universities if international student numbers dropped significantly as part of a big reduction in net migration – long the Tory party’s fervent, unfulfilled desire.
It was an instructive if chilling response, underlining the fact that for…
