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PM questioned over post-study work visas

David Cameron has been challenged over UK government policy on post-study work visas by the SNP.

Angus Robertson, the party's Westminster leader, asked why the government was preventing foreign students in Scotland from getting post-study visas, allowing them to stay on and look for graduate jobs.

He said the visas were supported by many organisations in Scotland, including the Scottish Conservative Party and asked: "Why does the PM think they are all wrong and he is right?"

Mr Cameron said "the clarity of our offer" to international students "is world beating" - but there were enough British people in need of low paid work.

The message to foreign students should "not be that it's OK to stay with a less than graduate job", he added.

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