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The Office for Budget Responsibility and other independent analysts estimate the economy is 4% smaller over the past 15 years as a result.

The government's independent advisory body has looked at all the evidence and is satisfied that fortification is the right course of action for society as a whole.

Even so, new analysis by the OfS, the independent regulator of higher education in England, will show a worsening position for universities, the BBC understands.

Harrods said: "We encourage these survivors to come forward and make their claims to the Harrods scheme, where they can apply for compensation, as well as support from a counselling perspective and through an independent survivor advocate."

In 2022 she left the Democrat Party and initially registered as an independent - accusing her former party of being an “elitist cabal of warmongers” driven by "cowardly wokeness".