Jeremy Corbyn is talking uneducated nonsense about tuition fees

Over the weekend, the Conservatives appeared to suffer a crisis of confidence. As calls for Theresa May to scrap the public sector pay cap grew, many Tories appeared to give up on the long term economic plan altogether. Damian Green called for a ‘public debate’ on tuition fees and Justine Greening ‘demanded’ £1bn to protect school funding. Add to all this the small fact that Philip Hammond still needs to account for the £1bn DUP deal and NICs U-turn in the Autumn Budget and the Tories’ economic record looks at risk.

As the government embraced its inner Corbynista, the man himself was quick to make some political capital out of the situation. Jeremy Corbyn used a rally to put pressure on the government over tuition fees. He said that it’s time to ‘scrap tuition fees’ as ‘fewer working class young people are applying to university’.

Jeremy Corbyn: "Fewer working class young people are applying to university.