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Why would the government pay your tuition fees?

In this column, Neil Amin-Smith of the Institute for Fiscal Studies explores some of the issues surrounding tuition fees

As Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May geared up to fight the 2017 general election, political commentators predicted that the result would hinge on the so-called ‘youth vote.’ Whether this was true is still being debated, but both political parties undoubtedly made concerted efforts to appeal to young people.

Nowhere has this been more evident than on the subject of university tuition fees — the Labour Party announced in the run-up to the election that it would abolish them altogether, while a few months later the Conservative Party pledged to freeze tuition fees and raise the income threshold for the repayment of student loans.

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