Sentences with phrase «to scrap university tuition fees»

The Student Christian Movement (SCM) has urged the government to scrap university tuition fees after... More

We made a successful attempt to get social liberals elected to the party's Federal Policy Committee (FPC), where we were able to defeat an attempt by the leadership to drop the policy of scrapping university tuition fees.

The disclosures by Mr Laws follow separate damaging claims that Mr Clegg secretly planned to drop his pledge to scrap university tuition fees months before polling day.

Last night Tory MP Peter Bone accused the Lib Dems of a U-turn over the «shambles» of their «unfair and unworkable» mansion tax policy — just as Mr Clegg abandoned his pledge to scrap university tuition fees after the last Election.

For signing up to the Conservative's austerity agenda and reneging on its pledge to scrap university tuition fees, the party saw its poll ratings plummet, routinely struggling to hit 10 % — this after the halcyon days of the 2010 campaign, during which some polls even had them in the lead.

In the 2010 election, the Liberal Democrats famously made a commitment to scrap university tuition fees — a pledge that was dropped once the party entered a coalition government with the Conservatives.

Mr McDonnell also confirmed that Labour would scrap university tuition fees, overturn Conservative trade union legislation and nationalise rail, water, energy and the Royal Mail.

• Scrap university tuition fees, promote comprehensive system of local schools offering mixed ability teaching; bring academies and free schools back into the local authority control.

She told Radio 4's World at One earlier that targeting schools and early years education was as important as the party's pledge to scrap university tuition fees.