Labour cost Wales £millions on Tution Fees, Thanks Tony Blair

First Minister Carwyn Jones says cutting the maximum university fee for students in England by a third would save Wales money. Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party would reduce the tuition fee cap from £9,000 to £6,000 if in power.

Most Welsh students are set to pay about £3,400 a year from 2012, with the Welsh Government paying the rest. Mr Jones said it could mean the Wales saving "a lot of money" if Labour win the next UK election.

So when Tony Blair’s Labour party first introduced tuition fees, they in fact cost Wales millions of pounds. The last Labour government as under funded Wales via the unfair Barnett Formula. The sad fact Wales has generally lost millions of pounds over the thirteen years of a Labour government.