Draft article: Andrew Learmonth 2026-07-16 17:29

Earlier this week, the SNP called on Andy Burnham to "copy the SNP" and honour his pledge to scrap tuition fees for students in England. In a press release, Alex Kerr, the party's new MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, said: "In 2015 Andy Burnham said he would scrap tuition fees to 'lift the millstone of debt' from English students — the cost has gone up almost every year since then, so why has Andy Burnham gone silent? "He should copy the SNP and scrap tuition fees — otherwise he'll be off to the same start as Starmer — breaking promises the moment he becomes Prime Minister." To be completely accurate, what Kerr is actually asking is for Burnham to copy Scottish Labour and the Scottish Lib Dems and scrap tuition fees, and then copy the SNP, who abolished the graduate endowment in