Of course the people around him tho...

The thing is I genuinely think he believes this is good policy. And he's consistently been in favour of tariffs since before he was president. This is what happens when you give the old man on the sofa watching fox news power over the US state.

So if the Home Office wants to reduce student migration numbers it needs to explain why it considers British families paying more for uni and/or the largest employer in many red wall towns going under is a price worth paying to reduce a form of migration that bothers no one

This is a dangerously deluded and misinformed attack against the civil service. The same that is produced every month, rain or shine, whatever party is in power, as if to fulfil some sort of Rupert Murdoch quota. Imagine giving your career to this.

It worked to lower UK rate from 20% to 10% though.

China and the Byzantines are both famous for this, like the whole concept of Byzantine intrigue comes from their equivalent of email jobs.

Write-thru:

www.reuters.com/world/china-...

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