“Loads will pull out. It will affect a lot of people from poorer families.
“It is creating a divide between upper and lower class. It will be difficult for me to pay for transport to get to and from college but I think I may just manage.
“A lot won’t be able to manage.”
- Decision to axe education grant ‘will force out students’, thisisplymouth.co.uk, January 20, 2011.
2. Gordon Brown will make a last-ditch appeal today to Angela Merkel to rally behind Tony Blair as the first president of Europe.
The Prime Minister – who will lobby other EU leaders at a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – will tell the German Chancellor that Europe needs a “big hitter” on the world stage rather than someone to chair meetings – as some EU leaders view the new post to be created under the Treaty of Lisbon.
- PM’s last-ditch appeal to Merkel for Blair EU presidency, Independent.co.uk, November 9, 2009.
3. The United States, Europe and the Middle East quartet are engaged in a last-ditch effort to set up a fresh round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in an attempt to head off a major diplomatic embarrassment over the looming Palestinian request for recognition of statehood at the UN.
The US is leading diplomatic pressure on Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a bid to persuade the parties back to negotiations rather than risk a damaging collision in New York next week. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton is in telephone contact with the three delegations in the region, who are co-ordinating their efforts.
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