
An announcement on international students is scheduled for this week
“Most foreign students will be banned from bringing family over to Britain in an immigration crackdown being announced this week.” These are the words that opened an article in The Sun yesterday.
Where else would the government choose to reveal a policy that will profoundly impact one of the UK’s few successful post-Brexit export industries? The location of the story tells us something about the intended audience for this messaging—and not just that it is unlikely to be read in Liverpool.