Keir Starmer’s tuition fees U-turn ignores the real problem with the system
There’s no justification for a lifelong stealth tax on those graduates who weren’t old or wealthy enough to escape it.
ByKeir Starmer
Keir Rodney Starmer is a Labour Party politician who became Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He has been MP for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015 and leader of Labour since April 2020. Starmer, born in 1962, studied law at the University of Leeds and Oxford, then became a barrister specialising in human rights. In 2008 he was appointed director of public prosecutions, for a five-year term. Find news, comment, and analysis about him here.
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Letter of the week: The NS great and the good
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Jacob Rees-Mogg shuns the barbarians at the gates
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