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This is education, the centrepiece of The Labour Party's 1997 manifesto: Just weeks before polling day, Tony Blair said: “Labour has no plans to introd
by pmachinery 6y ago
This is education, the centrepiece of The Labour Party's 1997 manifesto:
Just weeks before polling day, Tony Blair said:
“Labour has no plans to introduce tuition fees
for higher education.”
Labour’s Robin Cook added: “We are quite clear
that tuition costs must be met by the state.”
just two months after becoming prime minister,
Blair went ahead and introduced tuition fees.[0]
> Can you demonstrate where the opposition had those policies?
True, in opposition the Tories were actually opposed to Labour's tuition fees, condemning them as an attack on the poor and even promising to scrap them.
They know a good, juicy Tory policy when they see it though, and under David Cameron they reversed their pretend opposition, kept tuition fees and increased them.
So it does a serious disservice to Blair to say he merely copied Tory policies, when his Labour Party so out-Toried the Tories, they were reduced to copying him.
[0] https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-students-have-been-misled-and-lied-to-for-20-years https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-studen...