Why Blair Now Rues the Day He Mixed It with 'Newcastle' Brown
Mail on Sunday › January 11, 2004
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FORGET the miasma of jargon about variable fees, access regulators and up-front payments. If the Prime Minister is defeated over student tuition fees, it will, as ever in the poisonous court of Crown Prince Tony, be down to personalities, not policies.
Let me take you back to a private breakfast meeting with The Guardian newspaper just over a year ago, when Gordon Brown dismissed top-up fees as 'elitist', adding: 'There is this ridiculous idea that low-income families can pay 15,000 a year in fees.' Brown, the self-styled friend of industry and enterprise, let his mask slip to reveal his fetish for ideas that, despite the efforts of Tony Blair, have remained dormant, but not forgotten, in the heart of his party.See the full content of this document
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Why Blair Now Rues the Day He Mixed It with 'Newcastle' Brown
Fat-cat stockbrokers should be forced to pay a special tax to educate poor students, the Chancellor declared, attacking Blair's use of 'market' solutions in the provision of State services.
When B...See the full content of this document
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