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STUDENTS will take to the streets later this month in anger at Conservative policies’ impact on higher education, campaigners announced yesterday.
Thousands are expected to march down Whitehall on May 27, the day of the state opening of Parliament.
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) has called for the march against proposed £12 billion cuts to welfare as well as rumoured further increases to tuition fees.
“The only thing that can stop the Tories’ plan to dismantle the welfare state is mass resistance,” said NCAFC spokesman Callum Cant.
“That resistance starts now and we are determined to fight and win where we lost before.”
He added: “The student and anti-austerity movements are bigger and more prepared than they were in 2010.”
The demonstrations will be supported by the National Union of Students.
“This government received a minority of the popular vote and less than a quarter of the eligible population voted for them,” said NUS London co-convener Hannah Sketchley.
