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EXCLUSIVE: The government is raising tuition fees for EU students after Brexit

Home fee status and financial support to be withdrawn from EU nationals starting courses at English universities in 2021 in Theresa May's latest crackdown on foreign students

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Crackdown on EU nationals also applies to further education courses and apprenticeships. Irish students will be exempt from the changes. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/hi…
Damian Hinds' proposals set to spark a huge cabinet bunfight... cabinet ministers and even some DfE ministers are said to oppose the plans: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/hi…
No10 and Hinds say the taxpayer subsidy for EU students is no longer justified after Brexit

They say that when EU students finish courses they will be subject to new immigration rules, less likely to stay and work in the UK, so home fee status should end

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Labour's shadow education secretary @AngelaRayner responds to BuzzFeed News story: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/hi…
Best For Britain MP @JoStevensLabour: “If we’re trying to tell the world there can be a post-Brexit global Britain, this sends out all the wrong messages. This move will also rob British students of an affordable education abroad" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/hi…
Here is the DfE line on our story... "The government will provide sufficient notice for prospective EU students on fee arrangements ahead of the 2020/2021 academic year and subsequent years in the future.” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/hi…
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EXCLUSIVE: Theresa May is to reject the British Muslims APPG definition of Islamophobia on free speech grounds

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In the Commons tomorrow ministers will oppose the definition which states “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
The definition has been formally adopted by Labour, the LibDems and the Scottish Conservatives.

But the government will reject it on free speech grounds and because Islam is a religion not a race
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EXC: Who is behind the controversial facial recognition software used by the government to register EU citizens post-Brexit, which has been condemned by Remainers and privacy campaigners?

Two five-figure donors to Change UK. You couldn’t make it up...

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Privacy International says the Home Office app equates to “border guards knocking on every door in the U.K. and forcing EU nationals to show documentation“ and that "such use of biometrics across our lives is incredibly dangerous”
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Remain campaigner David Lammy warned it put the government “on track for another Home Office scandal on the scale of Windrush” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ch…
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NEW: The Brexit Party's most senior election official says Tommy Robinson has been "persecuted" and Islamophobia is "made up"

Nigel Farage has distanced himself from his own election agent tonight:

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Nigel Farage has attempted to detoxify the Brexit Party and distance it from UKIP rhetoric.

But its most senior election official:
- said Tommy Robinson was "persecuted"
- backed Robinson's rally at the BBC
- repeatedly mocked the concept of Islamophobia
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Noel Matthews is the third senior Brexit Party official to be ditched by the leadership for their comments on Islam.

@wesstreeting: "It shows that Farage and his party are no more respectable than the racism he left behind in UKIP" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/br…
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