As Rachel Reeves digs in over forcing more graduates to begin repaying their student loans sooner at eye-wateringly high interest rates, she has put the government on a collision course with millions of voters. To make sense of it all, university guide expert Alastair McCall looks at how we got to a place where the poorest pay more than the richest – and how else the UK’s higher education bill could be settled T he days of the present student loan system may soon be over. It is hard not to come