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Gary Gibbon
About half a dozen Tory MPs are muttering about rebelling over tuition fees tomorrow night and the number of Lib Dem MPs currently telling their whips that they intend to vote against has gone up from 13, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is facing a major rebellion over tuition fee rises after failing to persuade all his MPs to accept the policy.
The Government offers concessions on student tuition fees in an effort to head off a Liberal Democrat rebellion. Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News the policy is the “right thing to do”.
Students staging a sit-in protest against tuition fees at University College London tell Channel 4 News they will have to be dragged out one by one before they leave.
The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says that all his party’s Ministers will support plans to raise university tuition fees following a meeting of MPs at Westminster.
Gary Gibbon
Our Political Editor looks at how Thursday’s vote is shaping up for the Lib Dems – and finds a lone Tory who’s set to join some of them in the Opposition lobbies.
Two senior Liberal Democrat MPs consider resigning from their positions in protest over plans to increase university tuition fees.
Teenagers from poor backgrounds could have their first year at university paid for by the government, but as Keme Nzerem reports the plans won’t stop the protests.
Liberal Democrat Cabinet Ministers are set to support the Government’s plan to raise university tuition fees after Business Secretary Vince Cable says he is “collectively responsible” for the policy.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy blogs on news, tuition fees and the Martians.
Gary Gibbon
Tories are relaxed whatever happens on the Lib Dem benches, confident the measure gets through but Nick Clegg faces a challenge to unite his MPs over tuition fees.
Gary Gibbon
As Business Secretary Vince Cable confirms he will abstain on his own measure to reform university funding, Gary Gibbon hears from one senior Lib Dem that getting its MPs in line is like “herding frogs into a wheel barrow”.
The Liberal Democrats plan a mass abstention on the Commons tuition fees vote, writes our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon – but it could all still fall apart.
The Liberal Democrats plan a mass abstention on the Commons tuition fees vote, writes our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon – but it could all still fall apart.
More than 100 Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates sign a petition calling on the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to oppose a rise in university tuition fees.