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...“We hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible.”...
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...Immigration hawks might cry foul but it could ease the political pressure to claw back student visas....
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...For the hawks no number is low enough, certainly nowhere close to the pre-Brexit level of 300,000....
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...The vendors here hawk everything from local cheeses and fish to fruit, vegetables, bread and pastries....
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