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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

New levy on foreign students would be act of immense self-harm, Sadiq Khan warns Rachel Reeves

Chancellor Rachel Reeves must not “pull up the drawbridge to international students” by imposing a tax on their university fees, Sir Sadiq Khan has warned.

The London mayor, on the second day of a trade trip to Africa, said such a move would be an “act of immense economic self-harm” that would damage London and the wider UK economy.

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