In their own words: Broken promises

‘Labour will reintroduce maintenance grants for university students, and we will abolish university tuition fees.’

Labour manifesto May 16

‘Yes, there is a block of those [graduates] that currently have a massive debt, and I’m looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden… I will deal with it.’