SNP's Stephen Flynn grills Lib Dems on tuition fees during ITV debateSource: ITV
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00:00For our young people in Scotland, they go to university and they don't pay a single penny in tuition fees.
00:06Life-changing. Absolutely life-changing.
00:09And I don't know if the Lib Dems agree with tuition fees or not.
00:12They've got quite a record in that regard. I'm sure you can elaborate upon it for all of us.
00:17Daisy Cooper, respond to Stephen Flynn. Do you talk to Stephen Flynn?
00:21Well, on the question of tuition fees, we were punished for that. That's democracy. I get that.
00:25Do you still believe in free tuition, though?
00:27As I say, on the point of tuition fees, we were punished for that, right?
00:30But what's your position now? What's your policy now?
00:32In 2015, when we were out of coalition, the thing that the Conservatives did on their own
00:36is they removed maintenance grants, the grants that were there for the poorest students
00:41to give them a shot at going to university. And we have said that we would put those back in place.
00:46But when it comes to education, we will not take lessons from the SNP,
00:49who's under your watch. Schools have fallen down the international rankings rapidly.