Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

Published on
October 8, 2025
Last updated
October 8, 2025
Source: James Whatling/CCHQ / Parsons Media

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Reader's comments (3)

Well do you know, however problematic we are finding Sir Keir's emerging strategy for the HE sector so far as we can determine it, it i certainly looking better than the Conservative or ReformUK alternative proposals!! Always good to hear from Lord "Two Brains" Willetts again, especially after his previous interventions have been shown to have worked out so well in practice: the back of that envelope he used to plan them all those years ago was probably a bit too small for the task at hand. I expect he's feeling a tad nostalgic himself for those good old days long gone.
Well we have yet to hear from the Greens on this issue or have we I have no idea one way or the other, and don't forget Jeremy's new Jezzbollah party. He was always a great supporter of HE expansion while in opposition. So there is still hope for the sector. Sir Ed also might give us a lifeline, but then the Lib Dems famously did a complete 180 degree U turn on no student fees the very second they got a sniff of power in the Coalition last time.
The Tories as desperate as ever. Giving students choice while reducing nulbers makes sense not!

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