The public expressed their disappointment in the Labour party this evening as Fiona Bruce hosted BBC's Question Time. During an hour of live debate from Hartlepool, audience members fired questions to the panel - Sarah Jones MP, Matt Vickers MP, Bonnie Greer and Tim Montgomerie.
One audience member, named Alexander, questioned how Labour can be "investing in the future while increasing tuition fees for university students". The guest was a third year student, and also has friends who are first years and a younger sister who hopes to go to university.
He shared their collective thoughts, explaining: "We feel betrayed for voting Labour. Labour always seems like 'oh we're going to increase the economy and make it grow'.
"But having a more educated workforce helps the economy grow. So it just seems, you know, backwards."
Matt Vickers MP responded to the audience member's points. He said: "I don't think students are the only people losing out, are they? I mean, the budget had lots of consequences."
Fiona Bruce interrupted him as she said they were talking about tuition fees and scolded him adding: "Let's stick to that."
The politician continued: "Ok, well we've seen lots of movement on tuition fees and actually this generation are the students who went to school during Covid. They've had the toughest of times and come out with all of the challenges that being educated during that time brought forward.
"You have to look at what's going into universities and make sure the right investment is there to make sure our universities are competing with the rest of the world.
"I think it is a bit tough and I don't think anyone that voted Labour in this election expected to see that come within months of them voting, particularly the students."
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Fiona asked if the Conservatives would have made the same decision had they remained in power of government. Mr Vickers replied: "I don't forsee that they would have raised them [the tuition fees]."
He added: I still think the people who voted for them [Labour] didn't believe it. But then again the people voting for them didn't believe they would lose their winter fuel allowance. They didn't believe that taxes were going to go up.
"There are a lot of people who are very unhappy, not least the farmers."
