Sir Keir Starmer should not have abandoned a pledge to abolish university tuition fees, a Labour mayor says.
The Labour leader announced last week that his party is set to “move on” from the commitment, which was among the promises he made during his leadership campaign in 2020, blaming a “different financial situation” as the reason for the U-turn. The move has drawn criticism from political opponents and union leaders, while North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll has now also spoken out.
He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that Sir Keir “should have stuck” with his promise to get rid of the £9,250-a-year fees and that he did not “buy into the Tory narrative that there is no money”.
