Sentences with phrase «abolition of tuition fees»

Much of this is pretty well - trailed, including the phased abolition of tuition fees, which John McDonnell blurted out at a campaign stop in Mansfield (as we revealed here).

Such a move would be particularly poorly received by the Lib Dems, who have campaigned for the abolition of tuition fees for decades.

I'm sure they now think it is an even better idea than putting 5p on plastic bags, an idea David Laws assures me is the most popular policy the LibDems have put forward since, er, the abolition of tuition fees.

David Laws, of the Lib Dem coalition negotiating team, tells The Westminster Hour on Radio 4 tonight: «There was no way either of the other two parties would've signed up to the abolition of tuition fees.»

In the event, the Liberal Democrats did insist on the abolition of tuition fees after the inquiry reported in 2001, but in 1999, the delay was perceived to have been a compromise, and Wallace in particular became the focal point for extremely bitter criticism.

The controversial policy document was voted through by the conference, freeing the leadership to downgrade policies, such as the abolition of tuition fees, to aspirations rather than commitments.

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon says: «Lib Dem leaders had enough trouble getting their party to swallow a postponement of the abolition of tuition fees in the manifesto (it ended up put off to what some thought was a fairly meaningless distant horizon).

And he criticizes Clegg for failing to face down his own party over the abolition of tuition fees.

He insists the abolition of tuition fees remains Liberal Democrat policy, but in phasing the abolition over six years the party is simply responding to the new economic reality.

It is believed the party's manifesto could make the abolition of tuition fees for higher education a goal.