Degrees are meant to encourage critical thinking – no wonder Rishi wants rid of them

Rishi Sunak has a BA from Oxford and an MBA from Stanford, yet seems to think the way to tackle the lack of good jobs for graduates is to crack down on the number of graduates, writes Tom Peck

What even counts as a rip off degree? (PA Wire)

As if the Tories didn’t have enough to worry about, Rishi Sunak appears to be in campaign mode. Despite being the actual prime minister, Mr Sunak has only ever fought one political campaign in his life, which he lost to Liz Truss, and he very much appears to be at it again.

It’s hard to believe that this time last year that campaign hadn’t even started. In some ways, it’s hard to believe it ever happened at all. But suddenly the signs of deja vu are there.

For most of the summer of 2022, Sunak knew he was going to lose, so spent every single day coming up with increasingly mad ideas in a futile attempt to turn things around.