As the Government wins a vote to treble university tuition fees, violence flares across Whitehall. Alex Thomson says that nine police officers and scores of protesters are hurt.
Police officers have been injured and protesters arrested during demonstrations against tuition fees. MPs have voted to increase the cap on student fees to £9,000 in England.
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.
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.
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.
Gary Gibbon
The IFS has been number crunching the Tuition Fees announcement and pouring ice cold water over the government’s claim that universities will only charge more than £6,000 a year in tuition fees “in excpetional circumstances.”
FactCheck looks at a few of the pledges the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have dropped in the name of coalition and cost cutting.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon looks at the small print of the spending plans for higher education – and finds there might be more cash to ameliorate the rise in student fees.
Gary Gibbon
Vince Cable has told the Commons that he is hesitating about Lord Browne’s suggestion of no cap on tuition fees.
Gary Gibbon
The Coalition will go further than Lord Browne in requiring some graduates to pay back more than the cost of their degree, says our Political Editor.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon looks at what’s behind Vince Cable’s excursion into anti-capitalist rhetoric…and how it might go down at the Lib Dem conference Glee Club.
Economics editor Faisal Islam analyses Business Secretary Vince Cable’s principles – and whether they pose a threat to his participation in the coalition government.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon on the sanctions being considered on bank bonuses – and Lib Dem relations with The Guardian.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on the tough choices facing the coalition government with the impending publication of Lord Browne’s review into higher education funding.