Lifelong loans ‘could create long-term cost for English sector’

Government’s lifelong loans plan is fuelling drive to cut system costs and ‘spatchcocking a good idea’, sector figures fear

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June 1, 2021

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June 7, 2021

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Lumberjacks compete in strength and talent tests at the Great Yorkshire Show as a metaphor for Treasury seeing the policy as pretext to cutting wider loan costs and “spatchcocking a good idea”

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