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Originally Posted by Chris T

So they're not merely upping interest, as you first suggested - they are offsetting that increase by removing tuition fees. Whether that makes this a cost-neutral policy or not, I don't know. But it is clearly less costly than you wanted us to think. Tsk!

According to the manifesto it will save students half their debt because they can get student loans instead of credit card debt as well as abolishing tuition fees.