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Labour still committed to ending fees, says shadow minister

Image: Chris McAndrew [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Matt Western tells UUK that Labour will announce funding policy shortly

Labour’s shadow higher education minister Matt Western has told vice-chancellors that the party remains committed to its 2019 manifesto pledge to scrap tuition fees in England.

Speaking at the Universities UK annual conference at the University of Leicester on 8 September, Western added that Labour is working on its plans for university funding and would unveil them “shortly”.

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