KEIR Starmer has said his dreams of going to university as a teenager would nowadays have been crushed because it costs too much, despite dropping a…
leader – who went to Leeds University before studying at Oxford as a postgrad - said the impact on young people that fees have “should shame the Conservatives” and accused the Government of a"deep betrayal of aspirational Britain".
He told the Daily Telegraph:"There wasn't any spare money knocking around to fund me going to Leeds. I worked before I went and then got by on grants, as many young people do. I vividly remember carefully calculating rent, bills and food.“Going to Leeds to study was a turning point for me. It will be a deep betrayal if one of the legacies of this Tory Government is university, apprenticeships and skills becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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