Hughes accuses banks of making “racist decisions” – but is he right?
Today Simon Hughes took to the Lib Dem conference to label the banking system as racist towards ethnic minorities when seeking loans for businesses.
Today Simon Hughes took to the Lib Dem conference to label the banking system as racist towards ethnic minorities when seeking loans for businesses.
Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes has called for England to have its own Parliament, while Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has come under fresh scrutiny.
Usman Ali, National Union of Students (NUS) Vice President (Higher Education), writes of the flaws in the university access agreements, unveiled this week.
Simon Hughes MP, the government’s Advocate for Access to Education, writes on the need for everyone to be honest, and not to put people off higher education.
The Government’s ‘Access Tsar’ Simon Hughes has launched a broadside against tutors interviewing candidates as part of a university admissions process.
Simon Hughes is coming under pressure to explain his decision to vote for the abolition of Education Maintenance Allowance, with Andy Burnham calling him a “yellow Tory”.
At today’s Fabian Society conference Simon Hughes said that he opposed the cuts to Education Maintenance Allowance and housing benefit and the NHS reforms.
Simon Hughes thinks the Lib Dems are guiding the coalition in a progressive direction. But the economic damage done to Britain’s communities – including his own – overshadow any good.
National Union of Students president Aaron Porter writes about the huge responsibility facing the govt’s new ‘Advocate for Access to Education’ Simon Hughes.
Following Evan Harris’s bizarre claim last week that the only way to get rid of fees was to “vote more Liberal Democrats into power”, Simon Hughes yesterday said he “would have liked to have voted against” fees – but didn’t, just as he threatened to vote against the VAT rise in the Budget but failed to do so, and as he threatened to do over the government’s housing benefit cuts.