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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/labour-peers-in-tuition-fees-bid.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Labour peers have sought to throw out the Government's plan to raise the tuition fees cap to 9,000 pounds" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-labour-peers-in-tuition-fees-bid.jpg" alt="Labour peers have sought to throw out the Government's plan to raise the tuition fees cap to 9,000 pounds"/></a></p>
<p>Labour peers have sought to throw out the Government&#8217;s plan to raise the tuition fees cap to £9,000.</p>
<p>Amendments to the proposal in the Lords would overturn last week&#8217;s vote by MPs, forcing the Government to reintroduce the measure in the Commons if it decided to go ahead with the policy.</p>
<p>Last Thursday, MPs voted 323 votes to 302, a majority of 21, in favour of the plan, despite vocal opposition from some Liberal Democrats and a handful of Conservatives.</p>
<p>The vote followed a fractious five-hour debate and took place as student protesters clashed with police in the streets outside Parliament.</p>
<p>Opening the Lords debate in a packed chamber, Government spokesman Lord Henley said Labour&#8217;s two amendments would be &#8220;fatal&#8221;.</p>
<p>He told peers: &#8220;There is absolutely no mechanism for the Commons to address or put right a defeat in these circumstances and accepting one or both of the noble Lord&#8217;s amendments would therefore be, in practice, a veto.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no ping-pong in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Labour spokesman Lord Triesman accused the Government of attempting to drive through the &#8220;privatisation&#8221; of universities.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;This afternoon&#8217;s decision will switch the concept of universities from being a public good, as they have always been through modern history, to essentially a private sector, market-driven by personal private investment.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;Stripped back to the realities, this is a 200% starting fee hike and, for most, it will be a 300% increase.&#8221;</p>
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