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Tuition fee rebels slash coalition majority

By Alex Stevenson The government has won the tuition fees vote, but its majority has been slashed from a notional 84 to just 21. Ministers managed to persuade 323 MPs to back them, while the Labour opposition and Lib Dem and Tory rebels combined to win 302 votes. A second motion, that draft regulations implementing… Read more »

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The student protest movement has developed a unique momentum over the last month
Violence across London as government wins tuition fee vote

By Alex Stevenson, Peter Wozniak and Ian Dunt The tuition fees vote has prompted fresh outbursts of violence among student protesters in Parliament Square and beyond. After an afternoon and evening of clashes between riot police and protesters in Parliament Square, fighting started to break out throughout the centre of the capital. In Trafalgar Square… Read more »