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Attack on SNP fee plan for English students

THE SNP Government's decision to increase the fees English students pay at Scottish universities was yesterday branded a politically motivated policy aimed at promoting independence.

Ian Murray, the Labour MP for Edinburgh South, told MPs during Commons business questions that the Nationalists had decided to “impose huge tuition fees on English students going to Scottish universities”.

He pointed out how previously the SNP had called such tuition fees “both discriminatory and anti-English” and had said the added cost of a four-year degree meant “we won’t see English students going to Scottish universities”.