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Getty Images The education secretary has pulled student loan funding from the private Oxford Business College over concerns about admissions practices. Bridget Phillipson said the “management of recruitment and attendance” at Oxford Business College, which is not a university itself but offers courses from some English universities, had “fallen well short”. She said she wanted...

Abtisam Mohamed has said the Israeli government’s decision to stop her and fellow Labour MP Yuan Yang from entering the country was “about censorship and control”. Mohamed and Yang had been travelling to Israel and the occupied West Bank as part of a parliamentary delegation but were detained at the airport on Saturday before flying...

Two Labour MPs have been refused entry to Israel and detained by Israeli authorities, the foreign office said. Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang were denied entry because they intended to spread “hateful rhetoric” against Israel, the Israeli population and immigration authority said in a statement reported by Israeli media. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the...