Tuition Fees
Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]
7:59 pm
Stephen Williams (Bristol West, Liberal Democrat)
Debates at elections and the Browne report's methodology have been mentioned several times, but is not one of the fundamental flaws in the deliberative process that Lord Browne went through the fact that, although the report could have been published before the general election, the then Secretary of State, Lord Mandelson, deliberately made sure that we could not have a constructive debate during the campaign, because the Labour party knew that the report paved the way for a rise in fees?
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pauline pollard
Posted on 1 Dec 2010 11:42 pm (Report this annotation)
Stephen Williams is raising a good question about the lack of pre-election debate. But it is to be noted that on 8th January 2010 he gave a personal pledge that tuition fees would be reduced over the period of the parliament. This is available on his website,