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Labour did indeed introduce tuition fees and in 2010 they were around £3,000 a year with no expected paying back until earnings of £15,000 a year were realised.
In 2010 election,which is the main point, Labour were not going to raise tuition fees any further.
I would have been against the introduction of them but what happened after 2010 was far worse and unacceptable.
No way can Labour be blamed at all for the eventual trebling of the fees,no way at all.

We got a coalition govt. after 2010, which should have been about compromise,one party advocating doubling the fees, the other wanting to abolish them altogether.
I will never understand how from those 2 policies we ended up seeing the fees 'trebled' in fact.
That followed too, the Lib Dems promising with a signed pledge in public,never to support the increasing of tuition fees.
So no wonder students and their families are still really irate as to this issue.

Nothing at all to do with Labour,who had by then already lost students votes in 2 elections, so for me,likewise, so should these 2 parties in govt. now who have in my view abused their power on this issue.

The other side of the coin is, the threshold for paying the loans back was at £15,000 in 2010 under Labour for the £3,000+ a year tuition fees.
Now with a maximum of up to £9,000 a year as to tuition fees, the threshold was increased to just over £21,000 for the then payback to take place.

Which means that in 2010, a student with max tuition fees, left UNI with a total debt of tuition fees to a max of £9,000,not having to make any repayments until earning £15,000 a year.

Now with the threshold only raised to around £21,000,students are leaving Uni with a possible max of over a whole years salary of debt around their necks of up to £27,000.
From Labour in 2010 to this shower in govt now as to tuition fees,I can easily say which looked the better and the fairer too.

None of it after 2010 to do with Labour whatsoever and if the Conservative party thought tuition fees the wrong thing to do when Labour introduced them, they could have adopted the Lib Dem policy of getting rid of them after the 2010 election.
No, however, one of their first acts was that they couldn't resist the opportunity to raise them and heavily too, by trebling them.