Sir Keir Starmer will hand EU students a discount of nearly £30,000 to study in the UK after Eurocrats demanded yet another Brexit betrayal concession.
Starmer agreed deal at G7 summit fringe meeting (Image: Getty)
Sir Keir Starmer will hand EU students a discount of nearly £30,000 to study in the UK after Eurocrats demanded yet another concession.
It reportedly came off the back of a deal hashed out on the fringes of the G7 summit this month with the European Commission’s President, Ursula von der Leyen.
Under the terms of the agreement students heading to the UK from Europe will see their fees reduced from £38,000 to £9,535.
Sources reported in the national press laid bare that the outgoing Prime Minister had effectively surrendered to the Commissioner’s demands.
Reporting in the Daily Telegraph revealed that Sir Keir had only agreed to talk about the cut-price fees for EU graduates in return for progress on his wider demands.
A remainer, Sir Keir has already been slammed for selling out to the EU after he signed up to a slew of regulations without letting British MPs have a look in.
Members of his own cabinet have also called for the UK to sign back up to the single market and the customs union.
And his suspected replacement, Andy Burnham, has called for the UK to head back into the bloc in his lifetime.
Additional talks, namely a summit between the UK and the EU, were scheduled to take place this month – but the EU cancelled them after Sir Keir resigned.
It was reported at the time that they had done so because top Brussels officials believed Andy Burnham would be a softer touch in talks.
That summit was intended to end with new deals on a youth mobility scheme and to ease cross-channel trade barriers on food, drink and energy.
The Daily Express has started a campaign to ‘Give Us A Proper Brexit‘ which demands we leave the ECHR, establish a protected fishing zone around the coast and axe red tape.
This paper backed the Leave campaign and was the first national newspaper to support leaving the European Union.
Before Brexit, EU students were charged the same, but since Britain’s departure from the bloc, they have been made to pay annual international fees of up to £38,000.
Roughly 11 per cent of the UK’s 685,565 foreign students come from the EU, according to figures published for 2024/25.
