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Higher Education Bill

Asked if the Prime Minister was planning any meetings with backbench MPs in advance of the vote on the Higher Education Bill on Wednesday, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister continued to be prepared to hold whatever meetings were necessary. However, there were no specific plans in his diary to meet backbenchers at this stage. The Prime Minister continued to believe that this was a very important piece of legislation. That said, we were in no way complacent about the vote. We recognised that it would, once again, be tight. Nevertheless, he stood ready to argue the case as to why we needed top-level university education in this country that was capable of competing with the best in the world. Asked if any further concessions might be given to rebel MPs in the run-up to the vote, the PMOS said that the principles of the Bill remained clear and had been – and would continue to be – set out consistently by the Prime Minister and other Ministers when making the case for it.

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and how many scottish mps will vote on matters that don’t concern them in order to enable tb to push thru a deeply unpopular policy?
Comment by DEGREEK — 31 Mar 2004 on 12:19 am | Link

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