Keir Starmer set hares running at his big New Year speech at UCL in East London, when he was asked whether his decision not to get the big government chequebook out would mean abandoning Labour’s commitment to abolishing tuition fees.
He hinted that it might but also that Labour had been looking at several possible reforms.
University tuition fees are not working well, they burden young people going forward. Obviously we have got a number of propositions in relation to those fees that we will put forward as we go into the election.
Repeated to Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday morning, Starmer added, “we haven’t got a settled view”, and “Rachel Reeves and I have had to be very clear that we will only make commitments that we can afford at the General Election”.
