The main parties have dropped their promises to scrap student tuition fees

The main parties have dropped their promises to scrap student tuition fees

Cardiff University Students. Photo Petya Petrova Martin Shipton For one Senedd lead candidate, it was “something of a shock” to realise they represented the only party on the ballot paper in their constituency still committed to free education after recent policy shifts by the major parties. University tuition fees – introduced by Tony Blair’s Labour, then tripled under the Conservative-Liberal coalition – have always been contentious. And at el…