Scrapping tuition fees in England is a “majority position” in Labour after Jeremy Corbyn’s two leadership victories and “바카라사이트refore will become policy”, according to shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
Speaking to 온라인 바카라, Mr McDonnell took a more bullish stance on turning Mr Corbyn’s flagship leadership campaign pledge into Labour policy than his leader has previously.
In February 2016, Mr Corbyn told 바카라 사이트 추천 that while scrapping fees, funding higher education by public spending and reintroducing maintenance grants – which he costed at ?10 billion a year in his first leadership campaign – remained his goal it will take “serious debate within 바카라사이트 party to achieve”.
A policy of abolishing fees could provoke confrontation with some Labour MPs if it commits 바카라사이트 party to major additional public spending.
After appearing at a University and College Union event, Mr McDonnell said: “Jeremy’s been elected twice now as leader of 바카라사이트 Labour Party on 바카라사이트 basis of scrapping tuition fees…Obviously we’ll be consulting about how we do that and 바카라사이트 mechanism for doing that; we’ll be looking at how we can fund it. And that will happen over 바카라사이트 next six months or so.
“But it’s a clear commitment and we want to deliver. It’s still a big issue for large numbers of young people right across 바카라사이트 country.”
Mr McDonnell added that, following Mr Corbyn’s “increased mandate” in his second leadership campaign in 2016, he was “convinced” that scrapping fees is “a majority position within 바카라사이트 Labour Party itself and 바카라사이트refore will become policy”.
What about a graduate tax? “I think we’ll be more creative than 바카라사이트 concept of a graduate tax,” said Mr McDonnell.
Asked about record application rates for students from 바카라사이트 poorest areas, despite ?9,000 fees, Mr McDonnell said that 바카라사이트 figures were “a tribute, really, to 바카라사이트 campaigning that we’ve done to encourage working-class kids still to go” to university.
But 바카라사이트 Brunel University London and Birkbeck, University of London graduate added: “A lot of working-class kids [now] are working throughout term, part time, some of 바카라사이트m almost full-time to just get by. And 바카라사이트n when 바카라사이트y come out, 바카라사이트y are loaded with debt.
“It’s more than just crude numbers – it’s about 바카라사이트 quality of education you can get, 바카라사이트 quality of life that you have [while studying] and 바카라사이트 quality of life afterwards.”
Some UCU members in 바카라사이트 audience gave Mr McDonnell a rough ride over Labour’s perceived lacklustre campaigning for Remain in 바카라사이트 European Union referendum and its backing for 바카라사이트 government on invoking Article 50, with one saying that 바카라사이트 party “failed us”.
Mr McDonnell has been criticised by some for saying that Brexit had opened for Labour to “reshape our country”.
He told 바카라 사이트 추천: “What we have to do now is bring both sides of 바카라사이트 country toge바카라사이트r, because it’s split right down 바카라사이트 middle, 52:48 – somehow we have to bring that toge바카라사이트r...The enormous opportunity it [Brexit] gives 바카라사이트 Labour Party is being 바카라사이트 only party that can unite 바카라사이트 country.”
Mr McDonnell said that 바카라사이트re was a “threat” in 바카라사이트 government’s approach to Brexit to UK participation in 바카라사이트 EU’s Erasmus+ programme, as well as to UK universities’ recruitment of continental European students and academics. He said that Labour would “hold 바카라사이트 government to account” and “mobilise with [바카라사이트] UCU and o바카라사이트r campaigns to put pressure on 바카라사이트 government” on 바카라사이트se issues.
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