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expected to use her
2026 National Conference speech to announce several measures
she would implement in the first 100 days of government.
- She will announce a 20% cut to student loan issuance, the
lifting of the cap on medical school places, and 0% interest
loans for nurses.
- The savings from these changes will fund Reform's Skills
Revolution, including through the Apprenticeship Wage Credit and
Apprenticeship Retention Bonus announced in August.
In a speech at Reform UK's 2026 National Conference, the party's
Shadow Education, Skills and Equalities Secretary is expected to set out
three new policies that she will implement in her first 100 days
of a Reform government.
Braverman will announce that a Reform UK government would cut
student loan issuance for Mickey Mouse' degrees, with only
degrees that can demonstrate high economic returns for graduates
qualifying for student loans. Courses which are of strategic or
cultural importance will be approved despite low earnings if they
are judged to provide value to the taxpayer. The party estimates
this would result in a 20% total cut in the issuance of student
loans.
To end the deliberate decision to rely on foreign doctors,
Braverman will also announce that she would lift the cap on
medical school places and improve the offer to aspiring nurses
with 0% interest tuition and maintenance loans for domestic
students.
The savings from these changes would be used to fund Reform UK's
Skills Revolution, which includes the Apprenticeship Wage Credit
announced last month, worth over £4,700 per apprentice per year,
and the £2,000 Apprenticeship Retention bonus.
is expected to
say:
If you're a young person who wants to work hard and care for
others, Reform will back you. If you're driven by compassion and
want to make our NHS the best in the world, Reform is on your
side.
And if you want to move forward with your life in a trade or an
apprentice, or high value degree, Reform will support you.
We will lift the cap on how many doctors we train, we will fund
nursing degrees like never before and we will remove the rubbish
from our university sector to fund a British renaissance of
culture and industry.
An end to the Higher Education financial scam, fixing the
disciplinary crisis in our schools, ending the SEND emergency,
and re-introducing a patriotic curriculum into our classes.
Every single penny saved will be reinvested into our skills
revolution.
We will create a record number of apprenticeships, fund our
schools, build medical centres, doctors surgeries, back British
our nurses and cut the fat from our universities.
Our continued decline is not inevitable.
We will do what it takes to salvage this country from this abyss
of socialism and the rotten establishment.
Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has demonstrated
that over 20% of undergraduate students are financially worse off
than if they had not gone to university, with the taxpayer losing
money on about 40% of degrees.
