Poll Shows Students Back Lib Dems
January 25, 2004 12:00 AM
According to yesterdays MORI poll the Liberal Democrats are now first among students on 37% compared to Labour's 28% and the Tories' 20%.
Lib Dems have increased support in every year from 2000 (23%) to the present (37%), Labour have lost support in every year from 2000 (36%) to the present (28%) and the Conservatives have lower support now (20%) than in 2000 under William Hague (24%).
Yesterday's poll for student accommodation company UNITE also shows that 80% of students would have had second thoughts about their choice of university if it had charged £3000 top-up fees with 69% thinking the government is out of touch with students. Meanwhile student debts have increased by 43% in the last four years.
The crunch vote on university top-up fees remains on a knife-edge, a BBC survey of Labour backbenchers suggests. Of the 155 Labour MPs who signed a motion opposing the plans, 132 were contacted. Of those 62 still intended to vote against, while eight now backed the fees plan. Forty-three MPs refused to participate in the survey. Three said they would abstain and 16 were undecided.
Survey: <<a href="http://www.mori.co.uk/polls/2003/unite.shtml">http://www.mori.co.uk/polls/2003/unite.shtml>
MPs: <<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3420883.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3420883.stm>
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