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Madeleine Kirk signs Tuition Fees pledge1.15.00pm GMT Fri 26th Feb 2010 Madeleine Kirk, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for York Outer has promised to lend her voice, and her vote, to a student led campaign against future tuition fee hikes. Madeleine has signed up to the NUS 'Funding our Future' pledge. She promised that if elected as MP for York Outer at the next election she would vote against any increase in tuition fees and would fight for a fairer alternative to funding higher education in the UK. She also discussed the Liberal Democrat commitment to abolish tuition fees in the first six years of a Liberal Democrat Government, a pledge which has been welcomed by students across the country. Madeleine Kirk said: "I am 100% committed to supporting the NUS Funding our Future Pledge. Liberal Democrats were the only party who argued against the introduction of Tuition Fees in 2003, and have been the only party since to campaign against them. "Tuition fees are an aggressive tax on the aspirations of thousands of young people. It is hypocritical of those MPs who sit in the Commons today having benefited from a University education to close the doors on all those who come after them."
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