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This is, in the end, more efficient than the alternative.

In a statement, McDonald's said it had now found an alternative supplier and has started selling Quarter Pounders with onions again at the affected restaurants.

The European Commission said this meant alternative classified ads services had faced "unfair trading conditions", making it harder for them to compete.

T-levels are designed to cater for students who want an alternative to A-levels but do not wish to take an apprenticeship, which typically requires as much as 80% of a student's time to be spent with an employer.

T-levels were launched by the former Conservative government, which planned to make them the main route into vocational education by defunding alternative courses, like BTecs, with overlapping subject areas.