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Even ignoring the rest this is an extraordinarily bad idea in the manner it's being funded.

What happened when Labour messed with tax relief on pensions? The money piled into buy to let. Exactly the same will happen here. By making pensions even less attractive it'll push yet more money into the property market.

We already have the second 'hottest' property market in the world, this won't help.

That's ignoring the policy as a whole. A far better policy, in my opinion, would be to spend a couple of hundred million a year educating potential HE students on the particulars of student finance, alongside lowering the interest rate on the loans somewhat, perhaps to match the cost to the government of funding them, so perhaps based on the 10 year gilt rate.

This is a really lame attempt at a bribe for the youth vote... the youth that would largely have voted Labour anyway.

Our politicians are, by and large, truly pathetic.