Want to get rid of ‘rip-off’ degrees, Rishi? Try abolishing tuition fees

Yes, many students are being sold a false dream. But that's the government's fault, not the universities'

It was a long time before I understood the phrase he'll piss on you and tell you it's raining" - really understood it, at a gut level. It took 13 years and 10 weeks, to be precise, of successive feckless Conservatives messing everything up and telling us how messed up everything is.

So, having introduced the tuition-fee regime that leaves students with a life-changing amount of debt, and has demoralised and underfunded the sector so that the poverty-paid lecturers at its backbone are always on strike, the party has declared war on ripoff" degrees. Young people, Rishi Sunak contends, are being sold a false dream, without the prospect of a decent job at the end of it. Well, yes, Rishi, that is called life in the UK".