Ridiculous providing these staff are working in the NHS they should get treatment free they will be paying taxes.

On the subject of charging I cannot understand why nurses have to pay to be trained. As long as they pass and work in the NHS for say 5 years then I would cancel their tuition fees. We need to encourage more people into the system not the other way around.

Only because of leadsome’s comment that May doesn’t have children so couldn’t something over Brexit and how the future matters to parents or something. The press got in and spun it more to mean Leadsome meant May can’t have children, which she can’t.

I’d have wanted Leadsome for what is a term to just oversee Brexit, and even though she had little to no govt/ministerial experience, there’s been precious little of it anyway.

A snap survey of Conservative members has revealed that 82% want May to go and for a leadership election to start immediately.Certainly this echoes the views of my numerous Tory cronies.

I agree. Let's have a General Election now and get Nigel Farage and his Brexit Party into power so we can finally get what the majority voted for

The electorate want you all to go

The electorate want you all to go

They do indeed, had enough of the Tories and Labour, as the voting shows.

Those nice moderate Lib Dems have really upset the apple-cart.

Spinning the results away from the winning remain parties will only show the bust system for what it is.

The remain vote, now about 60% minimum and increasing, have not had anyone to vote for.

'Fromage not Farage'.

As my wife is currently a student nurse I can clarify this for you. Nursing used to be grant based but now, like so many other university courses, asks the students to pay via a "student loan". The idea that this is a loan, as most of us understand it, is incorrect. It is really a type of increased taxation to be paid by the highest earners. Only when a graduate qualifies and starts to earn above a threshold will they even start repaying the "loan". This remains a small figure for moderate earners and any balance is eventually wiped out if you don't reach very high earnings. It's a way of ensuring that those who gain the most from their education pay for it, and that's very unlikely to impact any but the most senior nurses. The downside is that there is a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads for 30 years!

So I would be correct in saying that even if the nurse never pays the loan back as her salary doesn't hit that level it will still count against her for things like mortgage and loan applications.

Just seems an unnecessary burden for people working in a vital sector of our economy.