Protests against student loans repayment changes | BBC Politics Live

Graduates angry about the student loans repayment system have dressed as sharks outside Parliament in a protest over plans from Chancellor Rachel Reeves to freeze the minimum wage threshold of repayments. Alex Stanley, NUS vice-president for higher education, told the BBC's Politics Live that without changes to the system the amount of debt being accrued by students was "going to start putting people off of universities". He claimed the current system was "worse the poorer your family is" and "the wealthiest can just afford to buy their way out of student debt". In the studio, Labour MP Natalie Fleet, Conservative MP Lewis Cocking and the Daily Telegraph’s Camilla Tominey debated the issue. Read more on this story on the BBC News website: https://bbc.in/4rbwlEp For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #UKPolitics #BBCNews