May's scaremongering deters foreign students, says Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg was chancellor of Leeds University for 17 years.The broadcaster and author Melvyn Bragg has attacked Theresa May’s “mule-headed and mendacious” policy of counting foreign students in the government’s immigration statistics, claiming international students are now “rejecting us in droves”.In a letter to the Guardian, Lord Bragg, 77, concludes he can only assume May wants to keep referring to “these 140,000-plus students as immigrants because