Sentences with phrase «voting against tuition fees»

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Since entering the Commons, Corbyn has defied the Labour whips on hundreds of occasions, including voting against the Iraq war, ID cards and increasing tuition fees.

The government's majority may have been slashed from 84 to 21, but enough Liberal Democrats broke a pledge with the electorate to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

He used the position cannily, building a base in the party unencumbered by ministerial office, charting a course of what he would term «independent loyalty» — never dissing the leader, but voting against # 9k tuition fees and the bedroom tax — yet which critics inside the party label «ambitious expediency».

After joining the coalition poll ratings for the party fell, [67] particularly following the government's support for raising the cap on tuition fees with Liberal Democrat MPs voting 27 for, 21 against and 8 abstaining.

Anas Sarwar: «During the election campaign, the Deputy Prime Minister said: «We will resist, vote against, campaign against, any lifting of that cap» on tuition fees.

It is one thing to vote against your own manifesto (as the Lib Dems did on student tuition fees) when your coalition partner will not budge.

Senior figures, including Mr Clegg and Danny Alexander, wanted to drop the policy of scrapping tuition fees but the party's campaign department ordered every candidate to sign the NUS pledge to «vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament».

Both divisions tonight - on increasing the upper tuition fees limit to # 9,000 and on raising the cap on basic tuition fees to # 6,000 - saw identical results: 323 votes in favour and 302 votes against.

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

Norman Lamb said the Liberal Democrats had learned an «extremely painful lesson» from raising tuition fees to # 9,000 while in coalition government with the Conservatives, despite ex-leader Nick Clegg's pledge to vote against any increase.

He said he was a long - time critic of Trident, and that he had voted against the introduction of tuition fees.

Anyone who doubts the electoral power of the student vote should speak to former Education Secretary Charles Clarke, who lost his seat at the last election after refusing to commit to vote against higher tuition fees.»

The Coalition government's proposed reforms to tuition fees announced in November 2010 provoked huge controversy, not least because many Liberal Democrats, including Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Sir Menzies Campbell, had signed the NUS «Vote for Students» pledge «to vote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative&raqVote for Students» pledge «to vote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative&raqvote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative».

He is seen as a key figure on the left of the party and his candidacy has been helped by the fact that he kept his hands clean of the coalition's most unpopular policies, voting against the bedroom tax and, crucially, higher tuition fees.

Farron, who is considered to be on the left of the party, having voted against the bedroom tax and the tripling of tuition fees, added: «I think centrism is pointless.

Prior to the General Election many Liberal Democrat MPs signed a pledge to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

If the Liberal Democrats renege on their promise to vote against higher tuition fees..

Following Mr Clegg's resignation later on Friday, Mr Mulholland said on Twitter: «The 2010 failure to ensure no Liberal Democrat MP voted against a rise in [student tuition] fees was catastrophic.

He voted against the war in Iraq in 2003 and opposed the introduction of tuition fees in 2004, but on other matters - such as Tony Blair's reforms of the National Health Service, he remained loyal.

And we also voted against raising tuition fees, having failed to persuade a Labour government not to renege on its promise.

He has also voted against the Government on tuition fees and yesterday voted against air strikes on Islamic State militants.

Former Lib Dem leader to vote against rise in tuition fees after Vince Cable reneged on party's election pledge to abolish them

I remain concerned about tuition fees which I voted against and will continue to support students» needs at every opportunity.»