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Yes but will Mr Robinson rebel against Andy Coulson and write something on a topic other than that determined in Number 10?

David Davis is playing a very clever bat at the moment, he has no chance of getting a ministerial position in this government so he has decided to be the rallying point.....the "i told you so!" candidate for disaffected tories who will before the next election will seek to distance themselves from the massivly unpopular tory government. He will seek the leadership again

Will more Tories join tuition fees rebellion?
I sure hope so, as well as LibDems and possibly Labour.
One of the most short-sighted things that any Government can undertake is the stiffling of a good education to those that have the capability, especially in demand occupations; or stiffling Research and Development.
It's as simple as this: Students and researchers are the future of the UK.
Can the UK afford to sell its future for the sake of reducing debt now?

> Lee Scott, told Newsnight yesterday that he will back the government

Funny, elsewhere on this site the 91Èȱ¬ is reporting that Lee Scott WON'T be supporting the Gvt

Sky News' 91Èȱ¬ Affairs Correspondent Mark White is reporting that two more Conservative MPs, Philip Davies and Dr Julian Lewis, will also be voting against the rise in tuition fees:

"Will more Tories join tuition fees 'rebellion'" is the title of Newsnight's Michael Crick's blog.

Personally, it does matter. Why?

Some politicians will 'harvest' or garner popularity on a change on higher education funding.

All the usual political pretenders aside - it's clear that the Prime Minister, David Cameron and the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Clegg - need to take several steps back AND re-consider why they are RUSHING into un-debated changes of funding into higher education so soon and so fast?

Our Leaders, Cameron and Clegg should talk to each other and accept that current students; NUS, future students and the general population, as a whole, have not been ethically or democractically informed by Downing Street or Parliament.

David Davis...working class Tory...brought up in a council house....some things just stay with you....some Tories even have a conscience....bravo David..

Unfortunately for the students, those idiots who stormed the roof of Millbank Tower have made a sizeable Tory rebellion unlikely. Any kind of climbdown now stands to give the message that you can get your way if you trash enough buildings in London, and the stakes are too high for that.

What these protesters never seem to learn is that if the price of backing down is the downfall of the Government, they will fight tooth and nail to stand their ground. The only hope for NUS now is if the Government can fabricate a semi-plausible reason that backing down had nothing to do with a violent minority and was instead down to something peaceful. And it will be a miracle if they pull that one off.