Daniel Clark

@BenKentish ….but for 80% of students, the interest is irrelevant as they are forecast to never even pay back the initial CASH advanced to do their degree

Pathetic response to the student loan repayment crisis. 6% interest is more than most people will be paying on their mortgages, car finance or bank loans. The government rip-off of young people continues.

@_JamieDS_ @MiloKostusiak @DailyMirror Of course I can read; but 1) nobody discusses the CASH impact of student loans 2) doctors don’t start on 75k 3) a very high % of students will never pay back the CASH consumed, so the interest rate is irrelevant

@djmclark @MiloKostusiak @DailyMirror Which is why it affects doctors so much. Can you read?!

EXC: Doctor left uni with £125k in student loan and admits 'I'll never pay it back' mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/d…

@MiloKostusiak @DailyMirror …understood, but he didn’t say 60k! 85% of students never pay back the 60k at the start of his career he’ll be earning far less (my point) Of course anyone can take out a commercial loan and pay that off; but of course they’d never get one because there is no asset to secure

@djmclark @DailyMirror As a consultant, he will be paying around £12-15K a year, not £4K. He will repay the debt, around £250K on the original £60K.

@LBC @TomSwarbrick1 ‘selling his house’ 😳

'It's basically legalized ticket touting!' England superfan Andy Milne, who is selling his house to fund a trip to the World Cup, tells @TomSwarbrick1 that FIFA is making '30%' on every resold ticket.

@lukejcr Are you sure you understand how this works? For 80% of graduates, the interest rate is irrelevant as they never pay back the CASH value of the initial sum consumed via the IT deduction 🤷

Your student debt should not go up because of a war you didn’t start. Yet for years, that’s exactly what the Conservatives’ Frankenstein’s monster of a system allowed to happen. When inflation surged, often driven by foreign wars pushing up energy and food prices, graduates on Plan 2 and Plan 3 loans were hit with spiralling interest rates. That wasn’t an accident. It was baked into the system they created. As a Plan 2 borrower myself, I’ve been working on this because it simply isn’t fair that graduates see their debt rise faster just because inflation spikes, especially during a cost of living crisis. Young people should never be used as a buffer for global economic shocks. Public attention is finally on how badly this system was designed. And now the very Tories who defended it for years are scrambling to jump on the bandwagon. You cannot spend years backing a system where balances rise with inflation, then pretend you were always on the side of graduates when a fix finally arrives. Labour in government is taking a different path. Capping interest rates on Plan 2 and Plan 3 loans protects borrowers from shocks they did nothing to cause and shows a Government serious about tackling the cost of living. Straightforward. Fair. Long overdue. Progress today. More to do, to build a system that is truly fair, once and for all. 👊🎓

@linmeitalks threshold IT rate term ……let’s wait until the Govt deals with those 3 levers……

6% 😂😂😂😂 It’s 6.2% now … whoop de doo

@nazirafzal …..the Govt (or rather Starmer) has blocked itself into a corner We now know the ‘bar’ There are enough bodies/agencies out there who will now have a ‘bar’ that can be used to show yet again that Starmer lives in a ‘two-tier’ world

Kanye West is blocked because “his presence is not conducive to the public good” CONSISTENCY is needed Anyone that feeds extreme misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia, ableism etc needs to get the same treatment Wouldn’t anything less suggest a hierarchy of protected interests?

@GuidoFawkes ….because it’s actually irrelevant, as it’s nothing ‘real’. 85% of Plan2 students never repay the initial CASH consumed, so the Govt doesn’t receive any CASH for those added ‘interest’ anyway

Labour Won’t Reveal Cost of Capping Student Loan Interest Rates Until Budget order-order.com/2026/04/07/lab…

@StephenMorganMP For 85% of graduates, it actually makes no difference to the CASH value they repay over the 30yrs That is, the amount of CASH deducted from them each tax year doesn’t add up after 30yrs to the initial amount of CASH issued to them to complete their degree

💷 Labour is capping the interest on Plan 2 and Plan 3 student loans from September 2026 to August 2027. Whilst this is not a silver bullet to fix the broken system we inherited from the Tories, we are keeping the system under review to make sure it is fair for Portsmouth’s students, graduates and taxpayers👇🏻 stephenmorgan.org.uk/protecting-por…

@lukejcr Yup

To the organisers of Wireless: When your event depends on a figure associated with antisemitism, swastika branding, and pro-Nazi messaging, claiming victimhood rings hollow. If losing that act sinks the festival, the issue was never the government. It was your willingness to have someone with extremist views literally headline your festival.

@LBC @lewis_goodall Average CASH delivered by Govt to enable you to complete your degree = 50k How much CASH does the IT deduction amount to each year on average ?…. 1k, 2k ? So it takes 25-50yrs to repay the CASH delivered up front, so the INTEREST RATE is a RED HERRING for 80% of students

‘That does not feel like a fair or proportionate way to tax!’ @Lewis_Goodall can’t believe a young graduate would need to be earning ‘£66,000’ to ‘even begin to pay off’ their student loan debts.

@NinaPanickssery Distance…… We lived at least 2hrs from grandparents. It would have been impractical We worked it between us. Very long days…….

(I am discussing families where the mother is required to work oc)

@LauraTrottMP ….. the thresholds the term limit the IT rate three levers no one seems to talk about

Not good enough. Labour are tinkering around the edges without a serious plan, while graduates will still be ripped off paying interest above inflation. Our New Deal for Young People will scrap real interest on Plan 2 student loans, double apprenticeships & stop dead-end degrees.

@SkyNews Hardly impacting what really happens…. Threshold - too low Tax rate - too high Term - too long PLUS. nobody talks about the ACTUAL CASHFLOW of these student loans…… consumed 50k - 100k CASH paying back £100 to £3000 pa INTEREST RATE is a RED HERRING

BREAKING: Interest rates on plan 2 and 3 student loans will be capped at a maximum of 6% from 1 September, the government has said trib.al/x5bNEMa

@Heccles94 They are ‘defensive’, so it’s OK

Should the UK be allowing the USA to launch strikes from our air bases?

@DHSCgovuk @wesstreeting @TheSun So as a DIRECT result of the junior doctors ‘walk out’ patients feel an IMPACT Quite an understated way of saying ‘patients will die or have their death speeded up’ due to their actions An interesting take on the hippocratic oath

"NOBODY wants strikes in our NHS. Every time junior doctors walk out, it's patients who feel the impact — and other NHS staff left picking up the pieces." @WesStreeting on how these strikes will mean delayed operations and families left waiting in pain. More in @TheSun: thesun.co.uk/health/3873537…

@GarethDavies007 How about employees who are ‘competent’ not ‘representative’ no matter who they are Clearly too radical a thought for the Civil Service to grasp

Thank you so much I will be reviewing the demographics of the Home Office headcount to ensure that in future it represents the demographics of our country rather than that of London I will also be reducing the London headcount by establishing rural offices More white people

@KarlTurnerMP @ukhomeoffice ….most people don’t realise that despite any VISA you may have, it’s the official on duty as you arrive that has the final say It’s why many people have been turned back from entering the US in the last year…….

Contractually yes. But not if @ukhomeoffice refuse visitor visor. Which they are entitled to do.

@narindertweets I’d expect all emergency staff to take off far more sick/mental health days than the average Imagine turning up at a RTA with multiple screaming patients….. That “internal coping bucket” fills up quickly

Imagine sneering at NHS STAFF worked to the bone taking care of Brits whilst paying as little into the tax pot as you can even though you're raking it in financially. They’re off sick because they’re burnt out, not because they’re lazy. Frankly, they contribute more to this country in a week than you have in a lifetime.