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Suella Braverman has been accused of breaking the ministerial code last summer

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told his Cabinet that roughly 136,000 visas were granted to dependents in 2022

Exclusive: The UK Government confirmed that overseas students, apart from postgraduates on research programmes, will be banned from obtaining visas for their dependants.

Visas issued to dependants of foreign students have increase from 16,000 in 2019 to 136,000 in 2022.

Sir Charles Walker complained that BBC Political Editor Chris Mason had asked the Prime Minister about the scandal at a press conference at the G7 summit in Japan

Only students on courses designated as research programmes will be able to bring dependants under home secretary’s policy

Downing Street on Tuesday said that the Prime Minister was still ‘looking at all the requisite information’.

Sir Gus O’Donnell joined a former cabinet minister in rejecting the notion that breaches of the ministerial code should always lead to departures.

Economic benefits of overseas students cannot be ‘at the expense’ of pledge to cut immigration, says home secretary

The announcement, which comes into effect in January 2024, comes as the Government battles to bring down net migration.

I am rapidly concluding that Rishi Sunak is, in fact, a malfunctioning protocol droid from the Star Wars universe: C3PM. In response to almost any question, he robotically answers with his “five pledges”. What would you like for your main course, Prime Minister? “We will halve inflation, grow the economy...”