Alan Turing was a gay man, a scientist and a war hero. (Getty)
Boris Johnson’s last-minute Brexit deal has scrapped the Erasmus exchange programme and replaced it with a new scheme named for the gay WWII hero, Alan Turing.
The prime minister announced on Thursday (24 December) that the UK had reached a trade deal with the EU, having rushed to meet the final deadline of 31 December.
While the full economic cost remains unclear, it has been confirmed that one major casualty will be the loss of the European student exchange programme Erasmus which was established in 1987.
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon was among the many decrying the government’s “cultural vandalism” in withdrawing from the programme, which has enabled over 300,000 UK students to study at universities abroad.