Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the end of maintenance grants for students, said:

“The Tories are letting young people down. First they trebled tuition fees, now they’re scrapping the grants thousands of young people rely on, forcing them to pick up the bill for the failure of Theresa May’s government. For young people the reality of the Tories is soaring levels of debt and limits on aspiration. Young people deserve better than this unfair Tory Government.”

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