The accelerating trend of branch closures and declining numbers of free-to-use ATMs make it increasingly difficult for the old and vulnerable to access basic services.
Our take is that what matters to students at least as much as their finances in the future is their finances now. Miinisters should mull a universal maintenance loan.
A review of student finance, to report before Brexit, would be a better way of proceeding than panic announcements at next month’s Party Conference.
The next manifesto might propose breaking the link between student maintenance costs and parental income by introducing a universal loan.
My client Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield, recently received an apology from Google. Anyone could find themselves in a similar position.