‘Please contact your MP now – we can still win this fight’.

The decision on 14 January to quietly force through the scrapping of maintenance grants has been met with a fresh wave of public anger and forced the Tories to have the debate they didn’t want to have in parliament next week on 19 January.

The government quietly forced through legislation to scrap maintenance grants by bypassing a full debate in parliament and instead holding a ‘Third Delegated Legislation Committee’ on the issue, in which just 18 MPs voted to decide the fate of over 500,000 of the poorest students in the nation for whom these grants are a lifeline.