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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/lastditch-protests-over-fees-plans.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Students protest over university fees increases ahead of the Commons vote" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-lastditch-protests-over-fees-plans.jpg" alt="Students protest over university fees increases ahead of the Commons vote"/></a></p>
<p>MPs have begun debating controversial proposals to treble university tuition fees as thousands of protesters gathered on the streets of Westminster.</p>
<p>Tension was mounting ahead of the vote in the Commons.</p>
<p>Students, lecturers and activists were preparing to march through central London in a last-ditch protest against the Government&#8217;s plans to allow English universities to charge up to £9,000 per year in fees from 2012.</p>
<p>There was speculation that up to half of the Liberal Democrat MPs could rebel against the Government.</p>
<p>Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg earlier branded opponents of tuition fee rises as &#8220;dreamers&#8221;, and insisted he was not ashamed of backing the plans because he was dealing with &#8220;the way the world is&#8221;.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Business Secretary Vince Cable said only Father Christmas could satisfy the demands for expensive, popular policies.</p>
<p>The comments came amid frantic efforts to prevent a major split in the coalition on the controversial issue of university funding.</p>
<p>Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned Lib Dems they faced a &#8220;day of judgment&#8221;, calling on them to stick by their pre-election pledge and vote against the increases. &#8220;Before the election, they promised families and young people that they would oppose any increase in tuition fees,&#8221; he said. </p>
<p>&#8220;Today it looks like many Lib Dems will break that promise. To abstain in this vote will simply allow the Government to increase tuition fees. I am calling on all MPs &#8211; including Lib Dems &#8211; to vote against this increase.&#8221;</p>
<p>A series of last-minute concessions and rumoured offers of Government jobs appear to have failed to head off a significant revolt among the Lib Dem rank and file, with signs that up to half of the party&#8217;s 57 MPs could vote against the plans.</p>
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