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This morning the Times has a story saying Keir Starmer is poised to abandon the pledge he made when he was running for the Labour leadership in 2020 to “support the abolition of tuition fees”. It was a continuation of a promise in Labour’s 2019 manifesto.
Starmer has been signalling that he will ditch this promise at least since last summer, when he refused to confirm it in a New Statesman interview. In January this year he indicated that economic changes since 2019 meant the promise would have to be revised. According to the Times, Starmer is now planning to give more details of his thinking in a speech later this month.
We are looking at options for how we fund these fees. The current system is unfair, it doesn’t really work for students, doesn’t work for universities.
We are likely to move on from that commitment, because we do find ourselves in a different financial situation.
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