Huge Brexit betrayal after Starmer hands EU students £30,000 fee discount
Huge Brexit betrayal after Starmer hands EU students £30,000 fee discount
Sir Keir Starmer will hand EU students a discount of nearly £30,000 to study in the UK after Eurocrats demanded yet another Brexit betrayal concession.
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Add us as preferred source Comments By Aaron Newbury, Political Correspondent 14:21, Tue, Jun 30, 2026 Updated: 14:26, Tue, Jun 30, 2026 
Sir Keir Starmer will hand EU students a discount of nearly £30,000 to study in the UK after Eurocrats demanded yet another concession.
It reportedly came off the back of a deal hashed out on the fringes of the G7 summit this month with the European Commission's President, Ursula von der Leyen.
Under the terms of the agreement students heading to the UK from Europe will see their fees reduced from £38,000 to £9,535.
Sources reported in the national press laid bare that the outgoing Prime Minister had effectively surrendered to the Commissioner's demands.
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Reporting in the Daily Telegraph revealed that Sir Keir had only agreed to talk about the cut-price fees for EU graduates in return for progress on his wider demands.
A remainer, Sir Keir has already been slammed for selling out to the EU after he signed up to a slew of regulations without letting British MPs have a look in.
Members of his own cabinet have also called for the UK to sign back up to the single market and the customs union.
And his suspected replacement, Andy Burnham, has called for the UK to head back into the bloc in his lifetime.
Additional talks, namely a summit between the UK and the EU, were scheduled to take place this month - but the EU cancelled them after Sir Keir resigned.
It was reported at the time that they had done so because top Brussels officials believed Andy Burnham would be a softer touch in talks.
That summit was intended to end with new deals on a youth mobility scheme and to ease cross-channel trade barriers on food, drink and energy.
The Daily Express has started a campaign to 'Give Us A Proper Brexit' which demands we leave the ECHR, establish a protected fishing zone around the coast and axe red tape.
This paper backed the Leave campaign and was the first national newspaper to support leaving the European Union.
Before Brexit, EU students were charged the same, but since Britain’s departure from the bloc, they have been made to pay annual international fees of up to £38,000.
Roughly 11 per cent of the UK’s 685,565 foreign students come from the EU, according to figures published for 2024/25.
"What I will never do is give up" – Kimmich rules out international retirement after Germany's World Cup exit
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Germany captain Joshua Kimmich is not considering retiring from international football after Monday's heartbreaking World Cup exit to Paraguay.
"I'll always have the determination to make another attempt. What I will never do is give up," Kimmich told MagentaTV after the match.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe 31-year-old, who was also part of the squads that crashed out in the group stage at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, converted his penalty in the shootout. However, it wasn't enough to prevent another disappointing tournament exit.
"I grew up in Germany watching the national team on television, and it always seemed to be the semifinals or the final. Of course, you want to give today's children, the people, and this generation that same experience. The fact is, we weren't able to give the people back home that," Kimmich said.
According to Kimmich, everyone in the team must take full responsibility for the latest failure.
“It's a real shame, especially at a time when it would do us so much good to have something in Germany we can be proud of. Unfortunately, the national team isn't that right now, and we all share responsibility for it,” he said.
"We have to take responsibility – no one can distance themselves from it. We have to own it, because we, the players who were on the pitch, are the ones who messed it up."
Taylor Swift won over Kelce's skeptical friend in backstage encounter
Taylor Swift won over another new fan in Travis Kelce's friend Taylor Lewan, days before the American power couple are expected to get married at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Swift joined Kelce last week for his annual 'Tight End University' - an event he helps plan for practice and networking with players who play in the position where the Kansas City Chiefs star made his name.
Swift has sprinkled some stardust over the last two events with a brief performance at the concert they host each year and this time, ex-NFL man turned podcast host Lewan got to witness Swift preparing to perform backstage.
Speaking on his popular Bussin' With The Boys podcast, Lewan explained: 'I'll just tell you this, dude - I was kind of into her music when I was younger. I haven't been super into it since then. It is just not my genre.
'The girl is incredible. What a performer. We are sitting backstage for a moment and she's about to go out. She's got a cluster, she's got a gaggle of individuals with her. But she's in the back before she walks out and you can see her just getting in the zone.
'I remember just looking at her being like "it is so cool that somebody who is as successful as she is, as famous as she is, she just handles her business the correct way at all times".
Taylor Swift stunned fans with a surprise performance at Travis Kelce's Tight End University
Swift joined Travis Kelce (left) alongside Claire Kittle, George Kittle, Greg Olsen and Talbot Olsen (L-R) at the opening event of Tight End University on Monday
Bussin' With The Boys host Taylor Lewan was impressed by Swift's performance last week
'And for her to sit back, get in the zone and go out and put on a performance, whether it was three minutes or five minutes, it was a very short amount of time, but the pop from the crowd... everybody in that moment felt like she was singing individually to them. And I thought that was just awesome.'
Swift joined Lainey Wilson on the stage to perform her hit 'Love Story' and dedicated it to Kelce's friend and rival tight end George Kittle, who plays for San Francisco 49ers.
'She probably misses ball!' Lewan joked about the lengthy NFL offseason. 'She misses ball a little bit, dude! But she was awesome. It was just really cool to watch people who are outliers in their craft perform.
'And I thought she is clearly that, the biggest superstar in the world. It is just awesome to see all that going down, all while our boy Trav is just bobbing around, stoked to kind of like be there.'
Swift and Kelce are expected to tie the knot this weekend in New York at the city's most iconic venue.
There were people in the industry who wondered if their plans to marry at MSG were a high-profile decoy but Daily Mail earlier this week shared pictures of equipment getting loaded into the venue, seemingly in preparation for the big day.
It remains to be seen if Lewan is going. He has known Kelce for around 10 years but the guestlist has been kept quiet and those attending have been sworn to secrecy.
And if, as Lewan suggested, Swift is missing football then she doesn't have too much longer to wait.
Kelce's Chiefs team start the season with a Monday Night Football showdown against AFC West rivals Denver Broncos on September 14 at Arrowhead Stadium.
