Rishi Sunak promises to create 100,000 high-skilled apprenticeships a year

Conservatives' policy would be funded by scrapping rip-off degrees' with high drop-out rates and low job progression

Rishi Sunak has promised to create 100,000 high-skilled apprenticeships a year by scrapping rip-off degrees" if he wins the general election.

In the latest of a flurry of announcements as the Conservatives try to narrow Labour's 20-point poll lead, the party pledged to replace low-quality" university degrees with apprenticeships.