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MP calls for investigation into universities’ ‘communist cash’

Conservative MP raises concern over money flowing into UK higher education

The further and higher education minister has declined an MP’s request to set up a taskforce to examine the “vast quantities of communist cash” being invested in UK universities.

In the House of Commons on 4 July, Conservative MP Julian Lewis asked the minister, Michelle Donelan, if the government shared his concerns about money “from countries such as China and Vietnam” flowing into higher education institutions.

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