It is the first student loan rise in eight years, the Metro reports, which it says means the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has made a “180-degree uni U-turn”. Previously he promised to abolish tuition fees, the paper says, but now his government is “putting them up 3.1%”. Sir Keir said he wanted to abolish tuition fees altogether when he was running for the leadership of the Labour Party in 2020, but he warned last year that Labour was “likely to move on” from the pledge.
“Now that’s what you call a U-turn!” declares the Daily Mail, also leading with the tuition fees rise. “Students face paying hundreds of pounds more a year after Sir Keir Starmer broke another promise,” it says. The main image on the front page is of The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy and her husband Malcolm McRae. The actress was in a bedroom at their London mansion when it was raided by violent robbers, the paper says.
