Subsidising Non-Brits ; Your Letters to the National Newspaper of Wales

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SIR - Rather than thanking Labour for the Welsh Government's recent proposals to pay the tuition fees rise for all Welsh students, we should be questioning its motives.

When you consider that Labour voted against a Welsh Conservative motion in the last Assembly, co-authored by myself, to scrap top-up fees for Welsh domiciled students (passed with Plaid Cymru and Lib Dem support), it is clear these proposals are blatant electioneering. Further, consider that after our motion was passed, Labour then insisted "on legal and financial advice" that it should be restricted to Welsh domiciled students attending Welsh universities, something they have strangely changed their tune on now, and that the current Labour/Plaid Cymru Welsh Government scrapped the grant off-setting the cost of student top-up fees in Wales which was introduced after we defeated Labour in the last Assembly.

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Subsidising Non-Brits ; Your Letters to the National Newspaper of Wales

On the surface these proposals may look like grea...

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