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.

Here are two political facts for you to consider.

Fact one: if you were the government and had found a spare £9bn down the back of the Treasury sofa, you probably wouldn’t spend it on abolishing tuition fees. If you care about social mobility, fairness and investing in the education of future generations, universities are not a good place to start.