They also made clear there are no moves to
change tuition fee policy after Mrs May's most senior minister, Damian Green, said Britain may need to have a national debate on the issue.
He threatened to abstain on his
own tuition fees policy, admitted he thought about resigning over his BSkyB gaffe, and also implied he might prefer life outside government.
Diane felt Ed Milliband was trying to move to the left and his
lower tuition fees policy was a positive move, as was his proposal for a freeze on energy prices.
The government's addiction to
its tuition fees policy has stopped thousands of would - be Muslim students going to university.
As Charles Moore pointed out last week in a devastating column
the tuition fees policy has become a terrible dog's breakfast: students oppose the debt, the Treasury isn't going to save much money and universities won't get the scale of resources they need to deliver world class courses.
The shift is being used by both the government and unions opposing
the tuition fee policy to justify their points.
They identified a number of political grievances, from general frustration with the current economic situation to specific anger at the coalition government's
tuition fees policy.
Labour started
the tuition fees policy and whatever we may wish for that massive expansion of HE, often at expense of quality, means we have to try and reform the current system.
Chancellor George Osborne added: «[Ed Miliband's] new tax on pensions will hit many people on middle incomes...
a tuition fees policy that only benefits better - off students is being paid for by hard - working taxpayers on middle incomes.»
He also said the Sutton Trust, which has been a vocal critic of the impact of the government's
tuition fee policy, would remain completely independent of government.