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Suella Braverman has urged young people getting their GCSE results not to “waste your time studying for a pointless degree at a mediocre university”.

The Reform UK education spokesperson made the comment as she set out the party’s plans to create 600,000 more apprenticeship starts a year by the end of the first term of a Reform government.

My advice to those young people today getting their results, my advice to those grandparents and those parents looking at the young people in their families who may be getting their results today: Be careful, don’t get ripped off by the great university scam.

Don’t waste your time studying for a pointless degree at a mediocre university. If you want to work hard, if you want to move forward, earn a wage, and have opportunities in your life, take up and look for apprentices.

You’ve got to get a fair spread and what we are doing with the new model of asylum accommodation and the future of asylum accommodation is think carefully about how you have a fair spread that doesn’t end up being in one community or one type of community.

In a way it doesn’t really matter whether you’re in an affluent part of the country or in a more deprived constituency like mine.