Labour’s top team pushes Starmer to replace tuition fees with graduate tax

Labour leader advised to create a fairer system in the form of maintenance grants

Keir Starmer is being urged by shadow cabinet figures to replace tuition fees in England with a graduate tax, amid growing concern that the finances of universities are becoming unsustainable under the current system.

An injection of cash in the form of maintenance grants to the poorest students is also backed by some of the Labour leader's top team as a way of ensuring students are not put off by the increasing living costs of attending university.