Ruth Davidson: Graduate loans are a tax on aspiration: it’s time for Fair Fees

Ruth Davidson: Graduate loans are a tax on aspiration: it’s time for Fair Fees

Ruth Davidson is a member of the House of Lords and co-chair of Prosper UK. We ask a lot of our young people. To work hard at school. Get the best grades they can. Find an avenue of further study, education, apprenticeship or direct employment. Pay taxes, save, buy a home, perhaps marry and start a family.  But we don’t make it easy for them. And for those who chose to go to university in England – particularly between 2012 and 2023 – we have sa…

It’s time to be honest about our ‘graduate tax’

Within the next few weeks, the latest batch of freshly minted graduates will roll off the university production line. Laden with borrowings, they face decades of repayments to the Government-controlled Student Loan Company.