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NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) president Megan Dunn came under fire last night for agreeing to sit with bosses on the campaign to stay in the EU.
Ms Dunn said that the EU benefited students up and down the country.
“The EU supports our education sector in Britain and ploughs close to £1 billion a year into higher education funding and research,” she wrote in the Independent.
But NUS executive member Beth Redmond, who supports Britain remaining in the EU, criticised Ms Dunn for taking the decision without consulting the union’s democratic structures.
And she said that business figures sitting on the official pro-EU campaign were “just not interested” in students.
“Why not be part of another In campaign which doesn’t result in you sitting on a committee with Lord Stuart Rose, Lord (Peter) Mandelson and Sir Peter Wall?” she asked.
The furore is not Ms Dunn’s first brush with her own team. In July the NUS executive censured her for accepting Coca Cola sponsorship in breach of a boycott of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements.
