Midland MPs defy students and back increase in tuition fees
MPs defied furious students and academics to back a massive increase in student tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year.
Liberal Democrats John Hemming (Birmingham Yardley) and Lorely Burt (Solhull) both broke a pre-election promise to vote against any fee increase.
Mr Hemming, who argues that the Government’s proposed reforms create a new and fairer funding system, voted in favour, while Ms Burt abstained.
Proposals to increase the maximum fee to £9,000 a year were approved by MPs as protestors battled police outside Parliament.
Read the entire story in the Birmingham Post.
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