UK News 03-12-2003 who: Tony Blair what: Puts his "job on the line" over student top-up fees where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: Faced with a "fast-growing revolt against his battered authority" by Labour MPs - 145 have now signed a rebel motion - the PM raised the stakes over tuition fees yesterday, says The Guardian. While Labour backbenchers believe that variable fees of up to 3,000 a year will create an elite tier of universities and discourage poorer students, Mr Blair insisted there would be "absolutely no retreat from it." Elsewhere The Guardian reveals that Lord Hutton "will break constitutional precedent" early next year by handing over his report into the death of the Iraq weapons expert Dr David Kelly simultaneously to the BBC and Tony Blair, so that "the Downing Street spin machine cannot...misrepresent or leak his findings in advance." [... more]

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